• Heidrek or Heiðrekr (Old Norse: [ˈhɛiðˌrekz̠]) is one of the main characters in the cycle about the magic sword Tyrfing. He appears in the Hervarar saga...
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    Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (The Saga of Hervör and Heidrek) is a legendary saga from the 13th century combining matter from several older sagas in Germanic...
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    had two sons, Heidrek and Angantyr (the second). Hervor gave Heidrek the sword Tyrfing in secret. While Angantyr and Heidrek walked, Heidrek showed Angantyr...
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    female characters in the Tyrfing Cycle, presented in The Saga of Hervör and Heidrek with parts found in the Poetic Edda. The first, the Viking Hervör, challenged...
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  • Lewis, Lord David Cecil, and Nevill Coghill. He published The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise: "Translated from the Icelandic with Introduction, Notes and Appendices...
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  • Later she marries and has the sons Angantyr and Heidrek. The fourth part deals with the saga of Heidrek the wise, the king of the Goths, and contains the...
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  • Glæsisvellir and they had the sons Heidrek and Angantyr. Angantyr would be the next of Tyrfing's victims. Angantyr's brother Heidrek had made himself impossible...
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    foster-father of Heidrek, who made a coup-d'état in Reidgotaland, the land of the Goths (see Oium and the Chernyakhov culture). When Heidrek was dead, Gizur...
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  • The riddles of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, also known as Gátur Gestumblinda ('Gestumblindi's riddles'), Heiðreks gátur ('Heiðrekr's riddles') and Heiðreksmál...
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  • use. Impenetrable armour occurs in Norse mythology in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, a story that Tolkien certainly knew and could have used for his mithril...
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