Hervor
Sign in to savethumb|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.
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9 sectionsContents
- Hervör, daughter of Angantyr
- Childhood
- Summoning the dead
- After retrieving Tyrfing
- Settling down
- Hervör, daughter of Heidrek
- See also
- References
- Sources
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.
The two are thought by some academics to be the same character, duplicated.
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