The Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks on Heithrek
Stories And Ballads > part likewise seems to be a story of the Viking Age. Towards the end,
- attestation: Heithrek gradually transforms from a Viking prince to a King of the Goths in the east near the Dnieper
"Heithrek instead of being a Viking prince of the Northern coasts, is now represented as a King of the Goths, somewhere in the East of Europe--apparently in the neighbourhood of the Dnieper."
Stories And Ballads > part likewise seems to be a story of the Viking Age. Towards the end, > The Saga Of HervöR And Heithrek
attestation: Angantyr prophesied Heithrek would fight with Tyrfing and trust to its might
"Who shall fight with Tyrfing mightily, And trust to Tyrfing's might."
attestation: Heithrek drew Tyrfing in berserk fury and killed his brother Angantyr because the sword must take a life each time drawn
"since Tyrfing had to be the death of a man every time it was drawn, Heithrek dealt his brother his death-blow."
attestation: Heithrek lived in the woods shooting deer and bears for food after killing his brother
"Heithrek got little joy of his deed and lived in the woods for a long time, shooting deer and bears for food."
attestation: Heithrek resolved to become famous for deeds of prowess like his ancestors
"it occurred to him that he could even yet become a man famous for deeds of prowess like his ancestors before him."
attestation: Heithrek went to Reithgotaland where King Harold ruled as an old man
"he came to Reithgotaland, where he went to the King who ruled there. His name was Harold, and he was an old man at the time."
attestation: Heithrek fought with Tyrfing against two Earls who had subdued King Harold's kingdom, slaying them both
"Heithrek fought with Tyrfing and, as in the past, no-one could withstand it, for it cut through steel as easily as cloth; and the result was that he slew both the Earls"
attestation: Heithrek had a son called Angantyr and a great famine threatened Reithgotaland (now called Jutland)
"Heithrek also had a son, who was called Angantyr. Presently a great famine began in Reithgotaland (which is now called Jutland)"
attestation: Heithrek sacrificed King Harold and his son Halfdan to Othin instead of his own son
"he was giving this host to Othin instead of his own son. He caused the altars to be reddened with the blood of King Harold and his son Halfdan"
attestation: Heithrek made love to Sifka daughter of Humli prince of the Huns; their son was Hloth
"Heithrek was now accepted as King throughout the realm. He made love to Sifka the daughter of Humli, a prince from the land of the Huns. Their son was called Hlöth."
attestation: Heithrek went raiding in the land of the Saxons and married the Saxon King's daughter
"King Heithrek went out raiding and marched against the land of the Saxons with a great host."
attestation: Heithrek found a handsome man asleep beside his wife in Saxony and took his son Angantyr away
"He found a handsome man asleep beside his wife. He took his son Angantyr and carried him away with him"
attestation: Statement from passage 62 of the source text
"A little later King Hrollaug came in and asked Heithrek to come and have a private talk with him."
attestation: Statement from passage 62 of the source text
"And when they entered a garden, some men sprang at Heithrek and seized him and cast him into fetters and bound him securely; and he recognised the two men who bound him most tightly as the men whose l"
attestation: Further detail from passage 62
"Their companions concealed in the woods heard the noise and came out to meet King Heithrek's men."
attestation: Statement from passage 64 of the source text
"You went over a bridge, and the course of the river was beneath it, and birds were flying over your head and on either side of you; that was their road; you saw a salmon in the river, and "
attestation: Further detail from passage 64
"Heithrek replied:
Your riddle is a good one, Gestumblindi."
attestation: Further detail from passage 64
"You lay in the shade and cooled your lips in dew."
attestation: Statement from passage 65 of the source text
"Heithrek replied:
Your riddle is a good one, Gestumblindi."
attestation: Statement from passage 65 of the source text
"That is the smith's bellows which have breath, yet not life."
attestation: Further detail from passage 65
"hail and rain; for hail beats upon the street; whereas rain-drops fall into the sand and sink into the earth."
attestation: Further detail from passage 65
"I saw a black hog wallowing in mud, yet no bristles were standing up on his back."
attestation: Further detail from passage 65
"Heithrek replied:
Your riddle is a good one, Gestumblindi."
attestation: Statement from passage 66 of the source text
"You saw an agate, and a sunbeam penetrated the house and shone upon it."
attestation: Further detail from passage 66
"Heithrek replied:
Your riddle is a good one, Gestumblindi."
attestation: Further detail from passage 66
"The eggs are not made with hammer or hands, and the hand-maidens put the ale into the egg-shell."
attestation: Statement from passage 67 of the source text
"It is that you came to a river; and an ice-floe was floating along the stream, and on it a dead horse was lying, and on the horse was a dead snake; and thus the blind was carrying the blin"
attestation: Further detail from passage 67
"Heithrek replied:
Your riddle is a good one, Gestumblindi."
attestation: Further detail from passage 68
"Heithrek replied:
Your riddle is a good one, Gestumblindi."
attestation: Further detail from passage 68
"You sat on a wall, and watched a hawk flying and carrying an eider duck in its claws."
attestation: Statement from passage 69 of the source text
"And he took it and unsheathed it, and cut off the fish's head, and then spoke a verse:
This pike at the mouth of the river Has paid the penalty For the slaughter inflicted on Heithrek, 'N"
attestation: Statement from passage 69 of the source text
"Angantyr immediately perceived that it was Tyrfing, and went off at once to the wood and waited there till it was dark."
attestation: Statement from passage 69 of the source text
"And the fishermen rowed to the land, and went to a tent which they had, and lay down and went to sleep."
attestation: Further detail from passage 69
"went up to them and pulled down the tent on top of the slaves and slew all nine of them, and carried off the sword Tyrfing as a sign that he had avenged his father."
attestation: Further detail from passage 69
"The kings who ruled at that time were as follows: Humli ruled the Huns, Gizur the Gautar, Angantyr the Goths, Valdar the Danes, Kjar the Gauls; Alrek the Bold ruled the English people."
attestation: Further detail from passage 69
"Hlöth the son of King Heithrek was brought up at the court of King Humli, his grandfather."
attestation: Statement from passage 72 of the source text
"Then Ormar rode back to the fortress, and found Hervör and all her host armed and ready."
attestation: Statement from passage 72 of the source text
"They rode forthwith out of the fort with all their host against the Huns, and a great battle began between them."
attestation: Statement from passage 72 of the source text
"But the Hunnish host was far superior in numbers, so that Hervör's troops began to suffer heavy losses; and in the end Hervör fell, and a great part of her army round about her."
attestation: Further detail from passage 72
"The Huns then proceeded to ravage and burn throughout the land."
attestation: Further detail from passage 72
"Then he continued:
All of thy noblest warriors On the field are lying dead."
attestation: Further detail from passage 72
"King Heithrek's daughter fell by the sword; She drooped and bowed her head."
attestation: Statement from passage 74 of the source text
"He had a son called Heithrek Wolfskin who ruled after him for a long time in Reithgotaland."
Stories And Ballads > Part Ii > General Introduction
attestation: Content from passage 87
"Yet despite all these blemishes they are ballads as surely as Sir Patrick Spens or Ungen Sveidal are ballads."
attestation: Content from passage 87
"Indeed whatever their faults one realises in all these ballads the truth of Sidgwick's epigram[33]: "You never know what a ballad will say next"
attestation: Further content from passage 87
", though you do know how it is going to say it!" For it is even less similarity of theme than similarity of form that links the ballads of the Faroes with those of Denmark and the North."
Stories And Ballads > Part Ii > GáTu RõMa.
attestation: Content from passage 107
"Guest goes wandering from the hall, Silent and blind is he; Meets he with an eldern man All with hair so grey."
attestation: Content from passage 107
"Meets he with an eldern man, All with hair so grey; "Why art thou so silent, Guest the Blind, And wherefore dost thou stray?"
3."
attestation: Content from passage 107
""It is not so wonderful Though I of speech am slow; For riddles have brought me to an evil pass, And I lose my head tomorrow."
attestation: Further content from passage 107
"Will I give to thee, If thou wilt go in before King Heithrek, And ransom my head for me."
7."
attestation: Further content from passage 107
""Go thou into thy courtyard And look to thy dwelling, thou, While I go in before King Heithrek, And ask him riddles now."
8."
attestation: Further content from passage 107
""Thirty are the riddles And one will I propose ..."
attestation: Further content from passage 107
"(First two lines lost.) Thunder is the red drum Which beats over all the world."
10."