* 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 Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, the poem Heiðreks gátur contains a riddle that mentions Sleipnir and Odin:

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.

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.

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.

Angantýr's story is most fully treated in the Hervarar saga.

Ingjald is mentioned in the Ynglinga saga, Historia Norvegiæ, Hervarar saga, Upplendinga Konungum, Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar and Íslendingabók.

During Ansgar's visits there was also a Swedish king Anund who had been exiled but returned with Danish help, and this Anoundus is the same as Björn's brother Önund, who is mentioned in Hervarar saga.

One of the few surviving Scandinavian sources that deal with Swedish kings from this time is Hervarar saga.

One of the few surviving Scandinavian sources that deal with Swedish kings from this time is Hervarar saga.

He is given as the son of Anund Uppsale in Hervarar saga:

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.

For easy reference on legendary, semi-legendary and historical members of the dynasty ( including some generations before Björn Ironside ), the following family tree is based on Hervarar saga, and the uncertain identification of Styrbjörn the Strong and Tyra as the parents of Thorgils Sprakalägg.

In addition, it also appears in Hervarar saga where Helga becomes so infuriated over the death of her father at the hands of Heiðrekr, her husband, that she hangs herself in the shrine.

According to the Heimskringla and the Hervarar saga, Ivar was also the king of Norway, Denmark, Saxony and parts of England.

According to Hversu Noregr byggðist and Njáls saga, he was the son of Halfdan the Valiant ( also given as his father in the Ynglinga saga and the Hervarar saga ), son of Harald the Old, son of Valdar, son of Roar ( Hroðgar ) of the house of Skjöldung ( Scylding ).

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 ).

Anund Uppsale or Anoundus, ' Anund of Uppsala ', ( Old Norse: Önundr Uppsali ) ruled Sweden together with his brother Björn at Haugi, according to Rimbert and Hervarar saga ( he and Björn are also mentioned by Adam of Bremen ).

Parts of his story are also retold in Eyrbyggja saga, Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum ( book 10 ), Knýtlinga saga and Hervarar saga.

A hypothesis suggests that Anund and Inge the Elder were the same person, as several sources mention Inge as a fervent Christian, and the Hervarar saga describes how Inge also was rejected for refusing to administer the blóts and that he was exiled in Västergötland.

He also appears in Hervarar saga and, concerning the battle on Samsø, in Gesta Danorum.

He published also translations of the Poetic Edda and Hervarar saga, and a history of Sweden to Charles XII ( of which a German translation was published in 1842 ), as well as original poems.

He appears in the Hervarar saga, and probably also in Widsith, line 115, as Heathoric together with his sons Angantyr ( Incgentheow ) and Hlöð ( Hlith ), and Hlöð's mother Sifka ( Sifeca ).

He appears in the Hervarar saga and probably also as Hlith in Widsith, line 115, together with his father Heiðrekr ( Heathoric ), half-brother Angantyr ( Incgentheow ), and his mother Sifka ( Sifeca ).

The sagas, such as the Hervarar saga, contain extensive information on this dynasty for as many as 10 generations, but although, some of the 9th century kings are held to be historical, modern Swedish historiography begins it with the late 10th c. king Eric the Victorious.