Hunaland and its people are mentioned several times in the Poetic Edda, in the Fornaldarsagas, and in chivalric romances. Its origins are partly the old...

Siggeir is plotting to overthrow Völsung and add Hunaland to his empire. Signý returns to Hunaland to gather Völsung, Sigmund, and their most powerful...

stallion. According to Völsunga saga, Völsung was the son of King Rerir of Hunaland, in turn, a grandson of Odin. The king and the queen were struggling to...

Sigi, succeeds his murdered father and avenges his death. He rules in Hunaland and becomes a powerful ruler. Rerir's son is Völsung. Rerir and his wife...

(naefrmaðr, 'birch bark man'), a sort of wildman dressed in bark. He arrived in Hunaland and meets King Herrauðr, where his true identity was soon revealed due...

from the land and led successful raids, so much so that he became king of Húnaland, a country name referring both to the territories of the Franks, also known...

they are cursed with a type of lycanthropy. Sigmund and Sinfjǫtli go to Hunaland where Sigmund is proclaimed king of the Huns. He marries Borghild and has...

Thidrekssaga, however, which is based on North German sources, locates Hunaland in northern Germany, with a capital at Soest in Westphalia. In other Old...

is unnamed in Beowulf. Signy was the only daughter of King Völsung of Hunaland and Hljod the giantess. She and her twin brother Sigmund were the oldest...

tradition. In the Þiðreks saga, Attila is a Frisian prince who conquers the Hunaland, and there is an allusion to at least one other forgotten legend concerning...