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Hamdir (Old Norse: [ˈhɑmdez̠]), Sörli (O.N.: Sǫrli [ˈsɔrle]), and Erpr (O.N.: [ˈerpz̠]) were
three brothers in
Germanic heroic legend who have a historic...
- had her
trampled to
death under horses. Her
mother made her half-brothers
Hamdir and Sörli
exact revenge for her death, a
story which is
retold in Hamðismál...
- Gudrún's Lament, The
Whetting of Gudrún.) Hamðismál (The
Ballad of
Hamdir, The Lay of
Hamdir)
Several of the
legendary sagas contain poetry in the
Eddic style...
- away to the
court of King Jonakr, who
marries her. They have
three sons:
Hamdir, Sorli, and Erp.
Svanhild is
raised with them. King
Jormunrek wants to marry...
- Oddrúnargrátr (Oddrún's Lament) Atlakviða (The Lay of Atli) Atlamál (The
Greenlandic Lay of Atli) Guðrúnarhvöt (Guðrún's Cause) Hamðismál (Talk of
Hamðir)...
- Jörmungandr, Gefjun's
ploughing of
Zealand from the soil of Sweden, the
attack of
Hamdir and
Sorli against King Jörmunrekk, and the never-ending
battle between Hedin...
- Jörmunrek (Jǫrmunrekr). By her
third husband Jónakr, Gudrún is
mother of
Hamdir (
Hamðir) and Sörli (Sǫrli). In the
eddic poems Guðrúnarhvöt and Hamðismál, Erp...
- (
Hamdir) and
Sarus (Sörli) and died from the wounds. The
Annals of
Quedlinburg (end of the 10th century)
relates that the
brothers Hemidus (
Hamdir),...
- land of King Jonak.
Jonak marries her and has
three sons with her, Sorli,
Hamdir, and Erp. Svanhild, Sigurd's daughter, is also
raised there,
before being...
- norns, fylgjas, and valkyries. The
eddic poem Hamðismál
deals with how
Hamðir and Sörli go to the
Gothic king
Ermanaric to
exact vengeance for the cruel...
