Tyrfing
Sign in to savethumb|Tyrfing as the coat of arms of Bolmsö parish thumb|right|300px|Svafrlami secures the sword Tyrfing.
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8 sectionsContents
- Description
- The Tyrfing Cycle
- Versions and ambiguities
- Etymology
- Influence on modern fantasy
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
thumb|Tyrfing as the coat of arms of Bolmsö parish thumb|right|300px|Svafrlami secures the sword Tyrfing.
Tyrfing, also rendered as Tirfing or Tyrving, was a magic sword in Norse mythology, which features in the Tyrfing Cycle, which includes a poem from the Poetic Edda called Hervararkviða, and the Hervarar saga. The name is also used in the saga to denote the Goths.