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    Guðrúnarkviða II, The Second Lay of Gudrún, or Guðrúnarkviða hin forna, The Old Lay of Gudrún is probably the oldest poem of the Sigurd cycle, according...
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  • husband with beautiful imagery. In Guðrúnarkviða II, she recapitulates her life in a monologue. In Guðrúnarkviða III, one of Attila's (Atli) bondmaids...
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    married to their sister Guðrún, Atli would soon be killed by her. In Guðrúnarkviða II, the Norns actively enter the series of events by informing Atli in...
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    punishment, she is killed by being drowned in a bog. Like Guðrúnarkviða II, Guðrúnarkviða III shows knowledge of continental traditions with the figure...
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    Włodzimierz. The Old Norse form Valdamarr (also Valdarr) occurs in the Guðrúnarkviða II as the name of a king of the Danes. The Old Norse form is also used...
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  • other kings and nations: Valdar is named as a king of the Danes in Guðrúnarkviða II (stanza 19): According to Hversu Noregr byggdist, a Valdar was the...
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    found at the Sutton Hoo burial site. Carved horns are mentioned in Guðrúnarkviða II, a poem composed about 1000 AD and preserved in the Poetic Edda: Beowulf...
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  • Lee M. Hollander's translation Guðrúnarkviða hin þriðja Sophus Bugge's edition of the manuscript text Guðrúnarkviða in þriðja, Guðni Jónsson's edition...
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    Death of the Niflungs) Guðrúnarkviða II (The Second Lay of Gudrún or Guðrúnarkviða hin forna The Old Lay of Gudrún) Guðrúnarkviða III (The Third Lay of...
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    2 and 3, in Haraldskvæði, cited in Hjelmquist 143. in stanza 8 of Guðrúnarkviða II cited in Hjelmquist 144. In stanza 45 in Fjölsvinnsmál cited in Hjelmquist...
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    Angantyr to appear. Valdar is also named as a king of the Danes in Guðrúnarkviða II. After Heiðrekr's death, Hlöðr travels to Árheimar to claim half of...
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    saga (as well as being mentioned in the eddic poems Grípisspá and Guðrúnarkviða II). According to the eddic poem Hyndluljóð, stanza 27: If Gotthorm or...
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    (Brynhild's Hel-Ride) Dráp Niflunga (Niflungs' Killing) Guðrúnarkviða II (The Second Lay of Gudrún) Guðrúnarkviða III (The Third Lay of Gudrún) Oddrúnargrátr (Oddrún's...
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    Hávamál, Odin says: "So do I write / and colour the runes" and in Guðrúnarkviða II, Gudrun says "In the cup were runes of every kind / Written and reddened...
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    water, in which she clears her name. After this, Herkja is killed. In Guðrúnarkviða II, Thiodrek and Gudrun recount the misfortunes that have befallen them...
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    Guðrúnarkviða II and Völsunga saga, Eymod appears as one of Gudrun's suitors together with Yaroslav the Wise. In his translation of Guðrúnarkviða II,...
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    (2 ed.). p. 1443. Schneider, Hermann (1933). Nordgermanische Heldensage. Vol. II, I. Walter de Gruyter & CO, Berlin and Leipzig. Schneider, Hermann (1962)...
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    ("descendant"). In Guðrúnarkviða II and Völsunga saga, Jarisleifr appears as one of Gudrun's suitors. In his translation of Guðrúnarkviða II, Hollander considers...
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    short prose section in the Poetic Edda between Helreið Brynhildar and Guðrúnarkviða II. Henry Adams Bellows notes in his commentary that the purpose of the...
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    kings by the name Haldingr. In the oldest one of the Gudrun lays, the Guðrúnarkviða II, Gudrun says that the potion of oblivion that her mother had given...
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  • wedding of Hildina and Hiluge have been found in the Icelandic poem "Guðrúnarkviða II", in which the heroine Gudrun is urged to marry king Atli, the murderer...
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    Gudrun (Kriemhild) makes him eat the flesh of his own sons. In the Guðrúnarkviða II poem, however, Atli simply has a dream about eating his sons, and Gudrun...
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    avenge her. Brot af Sigurðarkviðu, Guðrúnarkviða I, Sigurðarkviða hin skamma, Dráp Niflunga, Guðrúnarkviða II, Guðrúnarkviða III, Oddrúnargrátr, Atlakviða...
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    him, then kills him. Widsith, Waldere. Atlakviða, Atlamál, Guðrúnarkviða II, Guðrúnarkviða III, Oddrúnargrátr, Guðrúnarhvöt, Brot af Sigurðarkviðu, Skáldskaparmál...
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    2010, p. 212. Malone 1962, p. 213f. Uecker 1972, p. 76. Lexer 1872–1878, p. II:667. Uecker 1972, p. 106. Gillespie 1973, p. 101. Gillespie 1973, p. 72. Gillespie...
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    weihan ("fight"), and would thus mean "fighter". He is mentioned in Guðrúnarkviða II in a subordinate role. Hollander comments that as the Franks were neighbours...
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    several other German epics. Grípisspá, Brot af Sigurðarkviðu, Guðrúnarkviða I, Guðrúnarkviða II, Helreið Brynhildar, Skáldskaparmál, Völsunga saga, Norna-Gests...
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    Grípisspá, Reginsmál, Fáfnismál, Sigrdrífumál, Brot af Sigurðarkviðu, Guðrúnarkviða I, Sigurðarkviða hin skamma, Skáldskaparmál Völsunga Saga, Norna-Gests...
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    rejoices before admitting to Gunnar that Sigurd never slept with her. In Guðrúnarkviða I, Brunhild briefly appears while Gudrun mourns the death of Sigurd...
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    the other two leads to the frost jötnar and the third to Mankind. In Guðrúnarkviða I, as Herborg tells of her grief in having prepared funeral arrangements...
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