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Germanic legend. He
appears as Níðuðr in the Old
Norse Völundarkviða, as
Niðung in the Þiðrekssaga, and as Niðhad in the Anglo-Saxon
poems Deor and Waldere...
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Badhild was a princess, the
daughter of the evil king Níðuðr/Niðhad/
Niðung who
appears in
Germanic legends, such as Deor, Völundarkviða and Þiðrekssaga...
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Thidreks saga, Egil acts as a
masterly archer, once he is
forced by king
Nidung to
shoot an
apple from the head of his son. He
readies two arrows, but succeeds...
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tells about the
argument that led to
Nidung's hamstringing of Wayland, and
ultimately to Wayland's revenge:
Nidung had
promised to give
Wayland his daughter...
- and
eventually arrives at Jutland,
where king
Niðung is reigning.
Velent is soon
challenged by
Niðung's smith Amilias.
Amilias forges a suit of armour...
- Þiðrekssaga,
chapter 128, Egill,
brother of Völund, is
commanded by King
Nidung to
shoot an
apple off his three-year-old son's head: Now the king wished...
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person existed. Gessler's role in Tell's
story is
analogous to that of King
Niðung in the
story of Egil in the Þiðrekssaga.
Friedrich Schiller perpetuated...
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Daedalus out of wax and bird feathers. Egil' wings, Völund is held
captive at
Nidung's court. To help his brother, Egil
shoots birds and
collects their feathers...
- off in a boat he crafts,
windowed with gl****,
reaching the land of King
Nidung. In Chaucer's Merchant's Tale, the
following reference to Wade's boat occurs:...
