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 |
| Glæsisvellir |
| Reidgotaland |
| Arheimar |
| Mirkwood |
The Waking of Angantyr or the Incantation of Hervor is a poem in the Poetic Edda, which is also found in the Hervarar saga.
The poem is about the shieldmaiden Hervor and her summoning of her father Angantyr's ghost at his barrow. She does so in order to make him give her her heirloom, the cursed sword Tyrfing.
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External links
- A translation with comments on Old Norse, Todd B Krause & Jonathan Slocum (http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/norol-8-X.html)
- A translation into English by WH Auden & AR Taylor (http://meadhall.homestead.com/Angantyr.html)
- A translation at Stavacademy (http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/angantyr.htm)
- English translation from 1763 (http://www-db.library.nottingham.ac.uk/egil/runic_poetry)
- Smith-Dampier "The Waking of Angantheow" (from The Norse King's Bridal, 1912) (http://www.northvegr.org/lore/kings/001.phpEM)
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Bibliography
- Else Roesdahl (Editor), Sorensen Preben Meulengracht (Editor), Preben Meulengracht Sorensen (Editor), The Waking of Angantyr: The Scandinavian Past in European Culture (ISBN: 8772884355)
- Lee M Hollander: The Most Inportant Non-Skaldic Verse Not Included in the Elder Edda, Columbia University Press, 1936 [1] (http://www.geocities.com/thefrithstead2/)
- Patricia Terry: Poems of the Elder Edda (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).
