-
sleeping with Etzel's wife
Helche (
Herkja), with whom he had a
close relationship; an Old
Norse poet then made
Herkja into a
concubine and
accuser and made...
- On the
basis of the
later Germanic forms of the name (Herche, Helche,
Herkja, and Erka), Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen
argues that the
forms beginning with...
- Skáldskaparmál
Hergunnr Hjálmþés saga ok Ölvis
Herkir fire,
desolator Nafnaþulur
Herkja noise Nafnaþulur Himinglæva "Transparent-on-top" None
attested Parents:...
- one of Atli's concubines,
Herkja.
Gudrun must
perform an
ordeal of hot water, in
which she
clears her name.
After this,
Herkja is killed. In Guðrúnarkviða...
-
surely be more
correct to
write Eorce?
ought it to
suggest the lady Erche,
Herkja, Herche,
Helche renowned in our
heroic legend?"
Herbert (2007:13). Text...
-
poetry of the
Poetic Edda also had a
place for the
hardships of women.
Herkja, one of Atli's
former concubines, was
serving as a maid at his court. She...
- saga (24, 25, 29),
Ragnars saga loðbrókar See Heime1
Helche Old Norse:
Herkja or Erka, Latin:
Ospirin (in Waltharius),
Middle High German:
Helche Possibly...
