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    "Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar" ("Lay of Helgi Hjörvarðsson") is a poem collected in the Poetic Edda, found in the Codex Regius manuscript where it follows...
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    poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Völundarkviða, Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, Helgakviða Hundingsbana II and Sigrdrífumál. In stanza...
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  • Helgakviða may refer to: Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar ("Lay of Helgi Hjörvarðsson"), a poem collected in the Poetic Edda Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, the First...
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    the dragon slayer, although this is not explicitly mentioned in Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar where Sváfa's story appears. The etymology of the valkyrie's name...
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    constitutes one of the Helgi lays, together with Helgakviða Hundingsbana II and Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar. The locations in the poem have been fervently...
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    constitutes one of the Helgi lays together with Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar. Henry Adams Bellows maintains in his commentaries...
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    his mistress Sigrún were Helgi Hjörvarðsson and Sváva of the Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar reborn. They were once again reborn as Helgi Haddingjaskati and...
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    fasten'). Heitstrenging at Yule-evening is described in the prose of Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, involving placing one's hands on the bristles of the sónargöltr...
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  • air and over water," such as in the Poetic Edda poems Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. Orchard (1997:194). Simek (2007:218)....
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  • Grove") appears in the Poetic Edda poem Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar. The Poetic Edda poem Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar opens in Glasislundr, where a talking...
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  • then sacrificed in the sonar-blót: One of the prose segments in "Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar" adds that the oaths were sworn while drinking the bragarfull...
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  • Hrímgerðr "Frost-Gerðr", Soot-Gerðr None attested None attested Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, Nafnaþulur Hrímgrímnir "Frost-masked", sooty mask None attested...
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    drown them." The second instance occurs in a stanza found in Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar. In this stanza, the hero Atli references Rán while flyting with...
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    Hundingsbani) Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar (The Lay of Helgi the Son of Hjörvard, The Lay of Helgi Hjörvardsson, The Poem of Helgi Hjörvardsson) Helgakviða Hundingsbana...
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    on oaths of fealty. A prose passage inserted in the eddic poem Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar relates: Hedin was coming home alone from the forest one Yule-eve...
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    poem loosely connected with the Sigurd tradition which is named Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, the reason why a man named Atli once had the ability is not explained...
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  • appears as the friend of Helgi Hjörvarðsson in the eddic lay Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar. The other two appear as the villainous members of the same clan...
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    was a belief in rebirth in Germanic paganism. In Helgakviða Hundingsbana II and Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar in the Poetic Edda describe the rebirth of the...
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    numerous names of Odin is Jólnir, referring to the event. Both Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar and Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks provide accounts of the custom of...
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    turned to stone by the morning sun. This motif is also seen in Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, in which the gýgr Hrímgerðr engages in a senna with Helgi Hundingsbane...
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    the deceased. A prose passage inserted in the Poetic Edda poem Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar relates: Hedin was coming home alone from the forest one Yule-eve...
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  • literature Atli, one of the names of the Norse god Thor Atli, in Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, a poem in the Poetic Edda Atli Buðlason, a character in the heroic...
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    means "Suebian", was a Valkyrie who appears in the eddic poem Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar. The kingdom Sváfaland also appears in this poem and in the Þiðrekssaga...
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  • Scandinavian sources Helgi Hjörvarðsson, Scandinavian hero from Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, in the Poetic Edda Helgi Hundingsbane, Scandinavian hero who...
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  • of "Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar", there is a statement that Helgi Hjörvarðsson and Sváva were subsequently born again, and at the end of "Helgakviða Hundingsbana...
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    (Talk of Alvíss) Helgakviða Hundingsbana I (First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane) Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar (Lay of Helgi Hjörvarðsson) Helgakviða Hundingsbana...
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    the Helgakvida Hjörvardssonar: Quand les chevaux dressaient la tête, la rosée, de leurs crinières tombait dans les vallées profondes — Helgakvida Hjörvardssonar...
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  • "wolf cliff". It appears in the eddic poems, Helgakvíða Hjǫrvarðssonar, Helgakvíða Hundingsbana I and Helgakvíða Hundingsbana II, and in Völsunga saga. The...
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  • Norse name Hrímgerðr has been translated as 'frost-Gerðr'. In Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, Hrímgerðr announces herself as the daughter of the jötunn Hati...
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    the hero of Helgakvíða Hjörvarðssonar, who later avenges Svafnir, his maternal grandfather, by killing Hrodmar. Helgakvíða Hjörvarðssonar Sigrun Old Norse:...
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