Gothic women

6th century Lombard queen

thumb|upright=1.5|''Attila's death'', painting by

thumb|300px|right|Hervor, daughter of Heidrek, dying at the Hlöðskviða|Battle of the Goths and Huns, a painting by [[Peter Nicolai Arbo.]] Hervör (Old Norse: Hervǫr) is the name shared by two 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 her father Angantýr's ghost in his gravemound for his cursed sword Tyrfing. She had a son, Heidrek, father of the other Hervör. The second Hervör was a commander killed in battle with her brother.