The Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks on Hjalmar

Stories And Ballads > Part I > General Introduction

• attestation: Hjalmar's Death Song and the Waking of Angantyr are episodic poems attributed to the twelfth century by Heusler and Ranisch

  "the 'episodic' poems Hjalmar's Death Song and the Waking of Angantyr, both of which are attributed to the twelfth century by Heusler and Ranisch[12]."

• comparison: The Ballad of Hjalmar and Angantyr is shorter and simpler than the Ballad of Arngrim's Sons

  "the short and simple Ballad of Hjalmar and Angantyr to the longer and more complicated Ballad of Arngrims Sons."

Stories And Ballads > Chapter 4 also has a special interest of its own. Breaking into > Introduction To The Saga Of HervöR And Heithrek

• attestation: MS R omits the first chapter but contains Hjalmar's Death Song while many riddles are missing

  "R omits the first chapter of the Saga, but contains Hjalmar's Death Song. Here, too, many of the riddles are wanting"