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Heidrek or Heiðrekr (Old Norse: [ˈhɛiðˌrekz̠]) is one of the main
characters in the
cycle about the
magic sword Tyrfing. He
appears in the
Hervarar saga...
- had two sons,
Heidrek and
Angantyr (the second).
Hervor gave
Heidrek the
sword Tyrfing in secret.
While Angantyr and
Heidrek walked,
Heidrek showed Angantyr...
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Hervarar saga ok
Heiðreks (The Saga of Hervör and
Heidrek) is a
legendary saga from the 13th
century combining matter from
several older sagas in Germanic...
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female characters in the
Tyrfing Cycle,
presented in The Saga of Hervör and
Heidrek with
parts found in the
Poetic Edda. The first, the
Viking Hervör, challenged...
- Glæsisvellir and they had the sons
Heidrek and Angantyr.
Angantyr would be the next of Tyrfing's victims. Angantyr's
brother Heidrek had made
himself impossible...
- in 1954. Away from his father's writings, he
published The Saga of King
Heidrek the Wise: "Translated from the
Icelandic with Introduction,
Notes and Appendices...
- The
riddles of
Hervarar saga ok
Heiðreks, also
known as Gátur
Gestumblinda ('Gestumblindi's riddles'),
Heiðreks gátur ('Heiðrekr's riddles') and Heiðreksmál...
- or
mythological event.
Gollum and King
Heidrek were both
angry and
frustrated with
their opponent. King
Heidrek becomes violent and
swings his sword, Tyrfing...
- use.
Impenetrable armour occurs in
Norse mythology in
Hervarar saga ok
Heiðreks, a
story that
Tolkien certainly knew and
could have used for his mithril...
- foster-father of
Heidrek, who made a coup-d'état in Reidgotaland, the land of the
Goths (see Oium and the
Chernyakhov culture). When
Heidrek was dead, Gizur...
