The Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks on Odd

Stories And Ballads > part likewise seems to be a story of the Viking Age. Towards the end, > Appendix To Part I

• attestation: Statement from passage 77 of the source text

  "THE COMBAT AT SAMSÿ AND HJALMAR'S DEATH SONG

The following passage is taken from an early text of the Saga of Hervör and Heithrek (MS."

• attestation: Statement from passage 77 of the source text

  "2845 in the Royal Library at Copenhagen) where it occurs immediately after the earl's speech ("The death of mighty men" etc.) on p."

• attestation: Further detail from passage 77

  "n bade them farewell, and so they parted."

• attestation: Further detail from passage 77

  "The ships were of the kind called 'Ash.' The brothers concluded that these must be the ships of Hjalmar and Odd the Far-travelling, who was called örvar-Odd."

• attestation: Further detail from passage 77

  "The sons of Arngrim then drew their swords and gnawed the rims of their shields and worked themselves up into the berserks' fury."