* Hervarar saga

Memory of the Hunnic conquest was transmitted orally among Germanic peoples and is an important component in the Old Norse Völsunga saga and Hervarar saga and in the Middle High German Nibelungenlied.

In the Hervarar saga, the Goths make first contact with the bow-wielding Huns and meet them in an epic battle on the plains of the Danube.

Additionally, Sleipnir is mentioned in a riddle found in the 13th century legendary saga Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, in the 13th century legendary saga Völsunga saga as the ancestor of the horse Grani, and book I of Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus, contains an episode considered by many scholars to involve Sleipnir.

In the Hervarar saga, King Heidrek is asked by Gestumblindi ( Odin ),

* Tyrfing, a cursed sword in the Norse Hervarar saga.

Its age and importance is often difficult to evaluate but the Hervarar saga, in particular, contains interesting poetic interpolations.

* Hlöðskviða ( Lay of Hlöd, also known in English as The Battle of the Goths and the Huns ), extracted from Hervarar saga.

* The Waking of Angantýr, extracted from Hervarar saga.

Heidrek in the Hervarar saga agrees to the sacrifice of his son in exchange for the command over a fourth of the men of Reidgotaland.

Tyrfing, Tirfing or Tyrving ( The name is of uncertain origin, possibly connected to the Terwingi ) was a magic sword in Norse mythology, which figures in the Tyrfing Cycle, which includes a poem from the Poetic Edda called Hervararkviða, and the Hervarar saga.

Dellingr is also attested in the legendary saga Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks.

Five riddles found in the poem Heiðreks gátur contained in the legendary saga Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks employ the phrase " Delling's doors " ( Old Norse Dellings durum ) once each.

Regarding the references to " Delling's door " as used in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, Christopher Tolkien says that:

In Hervarar saga, Dvalin is one of a pair of dwarves ( including Durin ) who forged the magic sword Tyrfing.

This battle was once famous, since it also figures in Faroese ballads, in Orvar-Odd's saga and in Hervarar saga.

According to the Hervarar saga and the Waking of Angantyr, the mounds of the slain berserkers were haunted.

Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks relates that Hjörvard, the son of Arngrim, promised at his bragarfull to wed Ingeborg the princess of Sweden, and the legends of Ragnar Lodbrok relate that the Geatish jarl Herraud promised his daughter to anyone who could liberate her from a dragon or talk to her in its presence.

* In Hervarar saga, king Ingold I rides to Sweden through Östergötland: Ingi konungr fór með hirð sína ok sveit nokkura ok hafði lítinn her.

In Sögubrot af Nokkrum for instance, Kolmården between Svealand and Östergötland is described as the border between Sweden and Ostrogothia (... Kolmerkr, er skilr Svíþjóð ok Eystra-Gautland ...), and in Hervarar saga, King Ingold I rides to Sweden through Östergötland: Ingi konungr fór með hirð sína ok sveit nokkura ok hafði lítinn her.

Firstly, a sacrificial festival ( blót ) honouring them, the dísablót, is mentioned in one version of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs and in Víga-Glúms saga, Egils saga and the Heimskringla.

* Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks

It has been preserved as separate stanzas interspersed among the text in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks ( chapters 13 and 14, the stanzas are numbered 1 to 32, after their arrangement within the prose ).

According to Hervarar saga ok Heidreks konungs (" The Saga of Hervor and King Heidrek ") versions H and U:

This battle is said to have taken place in the mid 8th century and it is retold in several sources, such as the Norse sagas Hervarar saga, Bósa saga ok Herrauds and Sögubrot af Nokkrum, but it is most extensively described in the Danish Gesta Danorum.

The Hervarar saga speaks about Brávelli í eystra Gautlandi ( i. e. Bråvalla in East Götaland ), and in Sögubrot af Nokkrum the battle is said to have taken place south of Kolmården which separated Sweden ( i. e. Svealand ) from East Götaland and where Bråviken is located: ... Kolmerkr, er skilr Svíþjóð ok Eystra-Gautland ... sem heitir Brávík.

Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks is a legendary saga from the 13th century combining matter from several older sagas.

* Tolkien: Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks Konungs.

* Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks.

* Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks in Old Norse from heimskringla. no ( based on the R-text )

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Examples of shieldmaidens mentioned by name in the Norse sagas include Brynhild in the Volsunga saga, Hervor in Hervarar saga, the Brynhild of the Bósa saga ok Herrauds, the Swedish princess Thornbjörg in Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar and Hed, Visna and Veborg in Gesta Danorum.

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One of them is found in Olof Verelius ' work, in the annotations of the Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, and the other one in Johan Hadorph's work ( 1690 ).

Hervararkviða ( or The Waking of Angantyr, The Incantation of Hervor ) is an Old Norse poem from the Hervarar saga, and which is sometimes included in editions of the Poetic Edda.

This was the opportunity for Sweyn to assume power, and the account provided by Hervarar saga concerning his inauguration contains a rare description of the ancient Indo-European ritual of horse sacrifice:

They often contain very old Germanic matter, such as the Hervarar saga and the Völsunga saga which contains poetry about Sigurd that did not find its way into the Poetic Edda and which would otherwise have been lost ( see the Great Lacuna ).

The book contains versions, sometimes the only extant versions, of many Old Icelandic texts, such as the Landnámabók, the Fóstbrœðra saga, the Eiríks saga rauða, the Hervarar saga and the Völuspá.

Hervarar saga also mentions that Harald retook his father's domains, but it says that the conquests started out from Götaland ( or Gotland depending on the manuscript ).