The Waking of Angantyr
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| Tyrfing Cycle |
| Hervarar saga |
| Waking of Angantyr |
| Hlöðskviða |
| Artifacts |
| Tyrfing |
| Dwarves |
| Dvalin |
| Durin |
| People |
| Svafrlami |
| Arngrim |
| Angantyr |
| Hjalmar |
| Orvar-Odd |
| Hervor |
| Heidrek |
| Gizur |
| Gestumblindi |
| Angantyr |
| Hlöd |
| Locations |
| Bolmsö |
| Uppsala |
| Samsø |
| Munarvágr |
| Glæsisvellir |
| Reidgotaland |
| Arheimar |
| Myrkviðr |
The Waking of Angantyr or the Incantation of Hervor is an Eddic poem found in the Hervarar saga.
The poem is about the shieldmaiden Hervor and her visiting her father Angantyr's ghost at his barrow. She does so in order to make him give her heirloom, the cursed sword Tyrfing.
The French poet Leconte de Lisle adapted the Hervararkviða as he wrote a poem entitled L’Épée d’Angantyr ("Angantyr's sword").
[edit] External links
- A translation with comments on Old Norse, Todd B Krause & Jonathan Slocum
- A translation into English by WH Auden & AR Taylor
- A translation at Stavacademy
- English translation from 1763
- Smith-Dampier "The Waking of Angantheow" (from The Norse King's Bridal, 1912)
- (French) L’Épée d’Angantyr
[edit] Bibliography
- Else Roesdahl (Editor), Sorensen Preben Meulengracht (Editor), Preben Meulengracht Sorensen (Editor), The Waking of Angantyr: The Scandinavian Past in European Culture (ISBN 87-7288-435-5)
- Lee M Hollander: The Most Inportant Non-Skaldic Verse Not Included in the Elder Edda, Columbia University Press, 1936 [1]
- Patricia Terry: Poems of the Elder Edda (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).
