• Háleygjatal is a skaldic poem by Eyvindr Skáldaspillir written towards the end of the 10th century to establish the Hlaðir dynasty as the social equals...
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  • and so do also the jarls and the other mighty men, as is said in the Háleygjatal. —Prologue of the Prose Edda (11) Brodeur's translation In the Ynglinga...
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  • þulur as a troll-wife, and in 10th century skald Eyvindr Skáldaspillir's Háleygjatal (2), referring to the goddess Skaði. Lindow (2001:204-205). Larrington...
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    companions raised a mound over him there. Snorri then cites the poem Háleygjatal by a Norwegian skald named Eyvindr skáldaspillir: This act rendered the...
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  • However, in his preface to the Heimskringla, Snorri says that Eyvindr's Háleygjatal which reckoned up the ancestors of Jarl Hákon brought in Sæming as son...
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    Háleygjatal og Hyndluljóð [The sacred wedding and Norse royal ideology. An analysis of the hierogamy myth in Skírnismál, Ynglingatal, Háleygjatal and...
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  • reception in Valhalla. The poem is similar to the earlier Eiríksmál. Háleygjatal - Recounts the ancestors of earl Hákon back up to Odin and tells of their...
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    king Jorund (whom Snorri makes a successor of Haki), he cites the poem Háleygjatal by a Norwegian skald named Eyvindr skáldaspillir containing the Kenning...
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    presented as ancestors of the Norwegian kings, by Þjóðólfr of Hvinir Háleygjatal ‒ a similar work on the Hlaðir dynasty, by Eyvindr skáldaspillir To these...
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  • first of men as at this time?" Sigar the younger is also mentioned in Háleygjatal (as quoted in Ynglinga saga), where a gallows is referred to as "Sigar's...
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