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    Starkad (Old Norse: Starkaðr [ˈstɑrkɑðz̠] or Stǫrkuðr [ˈstɔrkoðz̠]; Latin: Starcaterus; in the Late Middle Ages also Starkodder; modern Danish: Stærkodder)...
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  • King Víkar himself. Starkad (Starkaðr), Víkar's counselor urged a mock hanging from a tree instead, but in giving this advice Starkad had been prompted...
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    he was killed by Starkad the old. According to Starbäck and Bäckström, Saxo Grammaticus tells a related story in Gesta Danorum. Starkad was accepted with...
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  • to avenge his father, Starkad appeared during a banquet that Ingeld had with the sons of Swerting, his father's slayer. Starkad strongly admonished Ingeld...
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    to give additional wounds to Starkad, who was greatly angered. She was killed by the champion Thorkell. Furious, Starkad went forth in the Danish army...
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  • warrior and he had twelve champions, among whom was the legendary warrior Starkad the Old. The Swedish king Hugleik had also gathered a large army and was...
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  • is also a second version in Gesta Danorum, concerning the adventures of Starkad, and which is based on the old warrior who restarted the conflict between...
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  • Jörð Kári Leikn Litr Logi Mögþrasir Móðguðr Rindr Skaði Sinmara Sökkmímir Starkad Surtr Suttungr Þjazi Þökk Þrívaldi Þrúðgelmir Þrymr Útgarða-Loki Vafþrúðnir...
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    through a combat. Ragnar and his three sons met the renowned champion Starkad and his seven sons in the sight of the two armies. "Björn, having inflicted...
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  • himself he had his twelve hirdmen of whom one was the legendary old warrior Starkad (who had been in the service of Hugleik's grandfather Erik and great-uncle...
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  • Old Shieldmaiden Sigi Sigmund Signy Sigurd Sigurd Hring Skirnir Skjöld Starkad Sveigðir Volsung Yngvi and Alf Many dwarfs are named in the poem Völuspá...
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  • Danish chronicle Gesta Danorum (see below), the old warrior appears as Starkad, and he succeeded in making Ingeld divorce his bride and in turning him...
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  • spear and shield of the Saxon Biargram Ironhand. Mael and Starkad leave on the pretext that Starkad must go settle a blood feud with Biargram. Arthur detains...
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    is the famous Víkar, king of Hördaland, who was sacrificed to Odin by Starkad. The chain of descent from Alrek to Víkar to Vatnar is also found in Hálfs...
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    and co-kings and it was to them that the warrior Starkad fled after his slaying of King Vikar. Starkad served them first as a companions on their viking...
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    parallels to Augustus. Follows the adventurers of the legendary hero, Starkad who is disappointed in the decadent ways of Frothi III's descendants. Is...
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  • Bjarki Egil Helgi Hothbrodd Loki Odin Ragnar Lodbrok Sigurd Fafnersbane Starkad Svipdagr Thor Vili and Vé Kaknu Nanabozho Arash Babak Khorramdin Esfandiyār...
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    with Högne, his son Dag, Granmar and all of Granmar's sons Hothbrodd, Starkad and Gudmund. Everyone dies but Helgi, Sinfjötli and Högne's youngest son...
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    defeat for the Norse army, since Sigurd Fanisbane made the Norse champion Starkad flee in panic. It has been suggested that a report of a struggle for the...
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    spent time with Ragnar Lodbrok's son Björn Ironside and his brothers, with Starkad, with the Swedish king Sigurd Hring, with King Erik at Uppsala, with King...
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  • kills both Högne, Bragi, Dag and Granmar's sons Hothbrodd, Gudmund and Starkad. "CHAPTER IX. How Helgi, the son of Sigmund, won King Hodbrod and his Realm...
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    the legendary Hrólf Kraki of Denmark. However in the section concerning Starkad, the kings of Sweden are the brothers Alrek and Eirík which, if one trusts...
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  • given in the Danish chronicle Gesta Danorum, the old warrior appears as Starkad, and he succeeded in making Ingeld divorce his bride and in turning him...
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    Illustration for Asarne by Per Hendrik Ling, with Storkvid (center), the father of Starkad...
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    performed. Alfhildr, the daughter of king Alfr of Alfheim, was kidnapped by Starkad Aludreng while she was reddening a horgr with blood. This suggests that...
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  • a "conjunction of trifunctional signs and death-modes": In the myth of Starkad, King Vikar is hanged or strangled on the waterside, while pierced by a...
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    Gesta Danorum the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus wrote that the Viking Starkad crushed the Curonians, all the tribes of Estonia, and the peoples of Semgala...
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    "Insula Magnetū[m]" (Latin for "Island of Magnets"), off modern-day Murmansk. The man holding the rune staffs is the Norse hero Starkad ("Starcaterus")....
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    thyle", presumably refers to Odin himself, and Beowulf. In Gautreks saga, Starkad is referred to as a þulr after he sacrifices a king. The word also appears...
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  • Marold's edition You broke Leikn's bones, you pounded Thrivaldi you cast down Starkad, you stood over the dead Gialp. —Skáldskaparmál (4), Faulkes' translation...
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