Tyrfing
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thumb|Tyrfing as the coat of arms of Bolmsö parish thumb|right|300px|Svafrlami secures the sword Tyrfing.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tyrfing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.