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3 unusual facts about Helgakviða Hundingsbana I


Helgakviða

Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, the First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane, an Old Norse poem found in the Poetic Edda

Helgakviða Hundingsbana I

When Helgi was but fifteen years old, he slew a man named Hunding.

When they had arrived at Granmar's kingdom, the poem deals with a flyting between Helgi's half-brother Sinfjötli and Höðbrodd's brother Guðmundr.


Dís

In Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, when the hero Helgi Hundingsbane first meets the valkyrie Sigrún, the poet calls her a "dís of the south"; Henry Adams Bellows rendered this simply "the southern maid".


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