The Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks on Tyrfing
Stories And Ballads > part likewise seems to be a story of the Viking Age. Towards the end,
- attestation: The magic flaming sword Tyrfing serves as the connecting link through the saga's generations
"Throughout this strange concatenation of scenes a connecting link is afforded by the magic flaming sword, which is handed on from generation to generation, and which can never be sheathed without having dealt a death wound."
Stories And Ballads > part likewise seems to be a story of the Viking Age. Towards the end, > The Saga Of HervöR And Heithrek
attestation: The sword Tyrfing sank so deep into a stone that both ridges of the blade were hidden
"the sword came down on it--sinking so deep that both the ridges of the blade were hidden; for the door into the stone closed as they disappeared."
attestation: Tyrfing was called Hjalmar's Doom because it had dealt Hjalmar his death-stroke
"The sword that the death-stroke to Hjalmar gave"