Örvar-Oddr (Old Norse: Ǫrvar-Oddr [ˈɔrvɑr-ˌodːr̩], "Arrow-Odd" or "Arrow's Point") is a legendary hero about whom an anonymous Icelander wrote a fornaldarsaga...

Orvar or Örvar is a Nordic male given name, which means "arrow" in Old Norse. Örvar-Oddr ("arrow's point") is a legendary hero in a 13th-century Icelandic...

the ritual being called a leikr. Örvar-Oddr's saga contains another notable account of blood brotherhood. Örvar-Oddr, after fighting the renowned Swedish...

crew landed on his back, he sank into the sea, drowning the crew. As Örvar-Oddr and his crew were sailing southwesterly through the Greenland Sea in vengeance...

this story occurs in Scandinavian legend, in the 13th-century saga of Örvar-Oddr. Another variant is found in the tale of Sir Robert de Shurland on the...

holmganga (duel) on Samsø against the Swedish hero Hjálmarr, whose friend Örvar-Oddr buries the cursed sword in a barrow with Angantýr's body. Tyrfingr is...

to an Old Norse parallel in the figure of Örvar-Oddr, "who is rejuvenated after living as a tree-man (Ǫrvar-Odds saga 24–27)". Continuing as late as the...

impenetrable armour, such as the shirt made by elves and used in battle by Örvar-Oddr (Ørvar Odd), as related in the Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. The saga was translated...

approval. For the first after his return to Sweden, Hjalmar's farewell to Örvar-Oddr after the Battle of Samsø, Charles XV, now king, assisted with the landscape...

to an Old Norse parallel in the figure of Örvar-Oddr, "who is rejuvenated after living as a tree-man (Ǫrvar-Odds saga 24–27)". Ask and Embla, the first...

to an Old Norse parallel in the figure of Örvar-Oddr, "who is rejuvenated after living as a tree-man (Ǫrvar-Odds saga 24–27)." Simek (2007:154). Larrington...

to an Old Norse parallel in the figure of Örvar-Oddr, "who is rejuvenated after living as a tree-man (Ǫrvar-Odds saga 24–27)." Theories have been proposed...

mail shirt made by Wayland the Smith. (Anglo-Saxon mythology) Armor of Örvar-Oddr, an impenetrable "silken mailcoat". (Norse mythology) Babr-e Bayan, a...

Icelandic folklore (including the story of Oleg the Wise, and that of Örvar-Oddr). It was greatly popularised in a version published in 1837 by Richard...

size of the clothing Pierre Pathelin bought. Halldór Laxness described Örvar-Oddr as twelve Danish ells tall in Independent People, Part II, "Of the World"...

although they mistook these for two massive rocks rising from the sea. Örvar-Oddr and his crew, who started from the Greenland Sea were sailing along the...

to an Old Norse parallel in the figure of Örvar-Oddr, "who is rejuvenated after living as a tree-man (Ǫrvar-Odds saga 24–27)".: 189  Theories have been...

Icelandic folklore (including the story of Oleg the Wise, and that of Örvar-Oddr). It was greatly popularised in a version published in 1837 by Richard...

Ruhfus. pp. lxxv. interprets this episode as an imitation of one in the Örvar-Oddr saga. Paton, Lucy Allen (1903). Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian...

century an anonymous Icelandic fornaldarsaga, describes the attempts of Örvar-Oddr and his son Vignor to track down an enemy named Ogmund: "I will tell you...

was a legendary battle, when the Swedish champion Hjalmar and his friend Orvar-Odd fought against the twelve sons of the Swedish berserker Arngrim. This...

A Danish island where the Swedish hero Hjalmar and the Norwegian hero Örvar-Oddr fought twelve infamous beserkers in Norse legends. It was also the location...

A scene from the Hervarar saga. Örvar-Oddr and Hjalmar bid each other farewell, by Mårten Eskil Winge (1866)....

Örvar-Oddr Old Norse: Ǫrvar-Oddr Oddr means "spearhead" or "spear", from PGmc *uzđaz. Ǫrvar is the genitive form of ON ǫr meaning "arrow", so Ǫrvar-Oddr...

Herrauðsson (ǪlvH) Ǫlvir hnúfa (Ǫlv) Ǫlvǫr (Ǫlvǫr) Ǫnundr Ófeigsson (ǪnÓf) Ǫrvar-Oddr (ǪrvOdd) Anonymous Lausavísur (Anon) - Unknown skald or skalds from a...

Örvar-Oddr's Saga and the Saga of Hervör and Heidrek) Hildibrands Sterbelied (from Ásmundar saga kappabana) Ǫrvar-Odds Sterbelied (from Örvar-Oddr's Saga)...

body. Thinking he could ward off fate, Oddr killed the horse and built a mound for it. At the age of 300, Oddr stumbled across the water-eroded mound...

the seeresses. Although he may not have transmitted a historical event, Oddr Snorrason, who wrote the saga in the 12th c., clearly identified Olga as...

Yugoslavia/Slovenia, p/f/nf) Ernir Kristján Snorrason (1944–1912, Iceland, nf/f/p) Oddr Snorrason (fl. 12th c., Iceland, nf) C. P. Snow (1905–1980, England, f/nf)...

"Örn Árnason". Þjóðleikhúsið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 24 June 2018. "Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason | Bókmenntavefur". Bókmenntaborgin – Reykjavík bókmenntaborg...