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    svanhvít, and Völund marries Hervör alvitr, daughters of king Hlödver, while Egil marries Ölrún, a daughter of the Roman Emperor (Kiár of Valland). In...
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  • poem Hymiskvida Egil, brother of Volund, hero of Völundarkviða and the Thidreks saga Egil One-Hand, hero from the Icelandic saga Egils saga einhenda ok...
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    Wayland the Smith (redirect from Volund)
    three sons: Völundr (Wayland) and his two brothers Egil and Slagfiðr. In one version of the myth, the three brothers lived with three Valkyries: Ölrún, Hervör...
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  • Egil, brother of Volund, legendary archer of Germanic mythology Egil, leader of Mechonis and antagonist in Xenoblade Chronicles Egil (Hymiskvida), a character...
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    be a king of Närke (the Njars) and captures Völund. Níðuðr orders Völund hamstrung and imprisoned on the island of Sævarstaðir. There, Völund was forced...
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    the brothers Slagfiðr, Egil and Völund dwelt in a house sited in a location called Úlfdalir ("wolf dales"). There, early one morning, the brothers find...
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    master archer Egil, the brother of Wayland the Smith: There are two other references which both place Kjarr far back in time as a contemporary of the Huns...
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  • Feather cloak (category Textile arts of Hawaii)
    : St, 29: "'Lucky..' said Volund 'that I can use my webbed feet'/of which Nidud's warriors deprived me!'/Laughing, Volund rose into air..". In Grimstad...
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    Shooting an apple off one's child's head (category History of archery)
    kills the king. In the 13th-century Þiðrekssaga, chapter 128, Egill, brother of Völund, is commanded by King Nidung to shoot an apple off his three-year-old...
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  • the Völundarkvida, as a Valkyrie swan-maiden who became the wife of Völund's brother Egil. The name Kjárr can be etymologically derived from Latin Caesar...
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