• Sonatorrek ("the irreparable loss of sons") is a skaldic poem in 25 stanzas, that appears in Egil's Saga (written c.a. 1220–1240), an Icelandic saga focusing...
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    Rán (section Sonatorrek)
    and Friðþjófs saga hins frœkna; and in the poetry of skalds, such as Sonatorrek, a 10th-century poem by Icelandic skald Egill Skallagrímsson. The Old...
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    Ægir (section Sonatorrek)
    variety of Old Norse sources. Ægir and Rán receive mention in the poem Sonatorrek attributed to 10th century Icelandic skald Egill Skallagrímsson. In the...
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    many historians to be the finest of the ancient Scandinavian poets and Sonatorrek, the dirge over his own sons, has been called "the birth of Nordic personal...
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    of wealth (Edwin, Audoin) Óðins nǫfn (1) Bági ulfs Enemy of the Wolf Sonatorrek (24) Baldrs faðir Balder's father Lausavísa from Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa...
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    referring to death. The Icelanders' saga Egils saga contains the poem Sonatorrek. The saga attributes the poem to 10th-century skald Egill Skallagrímsson...
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    as circumstance pieces, such as the following by Egill Skallagrímsson: Sonatorrek ‒ a lament on the deaths of his sons Höfuðlausn ‒ in praise of Eric Bloodaxe...
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  • Forspjallsljóð, Gylfaginning, Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, Höfuðlausn, Sonatorrek, Vafþrúðnismál Nari corpse Narfi Parents: Loki, Sigyn Brother: Váli Half-siblings:...
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    Egill Skallagrímsson's reference to his relationship with Odin in his "Sonatorrek", a tenth-century skaldic poem for example. This practice has been interpreted...
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  • 10, "Forspjallsljóð" 7 "kund Nörva". Njörfi, Njörvi: Gylfaginning 10, "Sonatorrek" "Njörva nipt". Nori: Gylfaginning 10. Nari: "Höfuðlausn" 10. Neri: "Helgakviða...
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