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The Poetic Edda on Hunding

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attestation: The stanza describes warfare or combat involving Hunding.

"10. Short time for war | the chieftain waited, When fifteen winters | old he was; Hunding he slew, | the hardy wight Who long had ruled | o'er lands and men."
attestation: Hunding is characterized by age in the verse.

"10. Short time for war | the chieftain waited, When fifteen winters | old he was; Hunding he slew, | the hardy wight Who long had ruled | o'er lands and men."
attestation: The stanza references rulership or authority involving Hunding.

"10. Short time for war | the chieftain waited, When fifteen winters | old he was; Hunding he slew, | the hardy wight Who long had ruled | o'er lands and men."
relationship: The stanza references a son of Hunding.

"14. The king then sat, | when he had slain Eyjolf and Alf, | 'neath the eagle-stone; Hjorvarth and Hovarth, | Hunding's sons, The kin of the spear-wielder, | all had he killed."
attestation: Hunding is characterized by power in the verse.

"King Sigmund, the son of Volsung, had as wife Borghild, from Bralund. They named their son Helgi, after Helgi Hjorvarthsson; Hagal was Helgi's foster-father. Hunding was the name of a powerful king, and"
attestation: The stanza references rulership or authority involving Hunding.

"1. "Say to Hæming | that Helgi knows Whom the heroes | in armor hid; A gray wolf had they | within their hall, Whom King Hunding | Hamal thought."

Hamal was the name of Hagal's son. King Hunding sent men to Hagal to"

attestation: The stanza describes warfare or combat involving Hunding, Helgi.

"4. "Small is the wonder | if boards are splintered; By a monarch's daughter | the mill is turned; Once through clouds | she was wont to ride, And battles fought | like fighting men,"
attestation: The stanza describes binding or imprisonment involving Hunding.

"4. "Small is the wonder | if boards are splintered; By a monarch's daughter | the mill is turned; Once through clouds | she was wont to ride, And battles fought | like fighting men,"

attestation: Hunding was a Saxon king ruling in Jutland according to Saxo, the origin of Helgi's traditional foe

"Saxo mentions a Hunding who was a Saxon king ruling in Jutland, probably the origin of Helgi's traditional foe"

attestation: The stanza describes warfare or combat involving Hunding, Helgi.

"9. "Of battle thou tellest, | and there was bent Hunding the king | before Helgi down; There was carnage when thou | didst avenge thy kin, And blood flowed fast | on the blade of the sword."

Helgi spake:"

attestation: The stanza references rulership or authority involving Hunding.

"9. "Of battle thou tellest, | and there was bent Hunding the king | before Helgi down; There was carnage when thou | didst avenge thy kin, And blood flowed fast | on the blade of the sword."

Helgi spake:"

relationship: The stanza references a son of Hunding.

"Granmar was the name of a mighty king, who dwelt at Svarin's hill. He had many sons; one was named Hothbrodd, another Gothmund, a third Starkath. Hothbrodd was in a kings' meeting, and he won the promise of"

relationship: as is the offspring of Hunding.

"Hunding: in the Helgi lays the sons of Hunding are all killed, but they reappear here and in two of the poems (Gripisspo, 9, and Reginsmol, 15), and the Volsungasaga names Lyngvi as the son of Hunding who, as the rejected lover of Hjordis, kills Sigmund and his father-in-law, Eylimi, as well."

attestation: The stanza describes death or destruction involving Hunding.

"9. "First shalt thou, prince, | thy father avenge, And Eylimi, | their ills requiting; The hardy sons | of Hunding thou Soon shalt fell, | and victory find."

Sigurth spake:"

attestation: The stanza references rulership or authority involving Hunding.

"9. "First shalt thou, prince, | thy father avenge, And Eylimi, | their ills requiting; The hardy sons | of Hunding thou Soon shalt fell, | and victory find."

Sigurth spake:"

relationship: The stanza references a son of Hunding.

"The twenty-six stanzas and accompanying prose notes included under the heading of Reginsmol belong almost wholly to the northern part of the Sigurth legend; the mythological features have no counterpart in the"
attestation: The stanza describes death or destruction involving Hunding.

"15. "Loud will the sons | of Hunding laugh, Who low did Eylimi | lay in death, If the hero sooner | seeks the red Rings to find | than his father's vengeance.""
attestation: The stanza references wealth or gifts involving Hunding.

"15. "Loud will the sons | of Hunding laugh, Who low did Eylimi | lay in death, If the hero sooner | seeks the red Rings to find | than his father's vengeance.""
attestation: The stanza describes death or destruction involving Hunding.

"25. "Combed and washed | shall the wise man go, And a meal at morn shall take; For unknown it is | where at eve he may be; It is ill thy luck to lose."

Sigurth had a great battle with Lyngvi, the son of Hunding, and his"

attestation: The stanza describes warfare or combat involving Hunding, Sigurth.

"25. "Combed and washed | shall the wise man go, And a meal at morn shall take; For unknown it is | where at eve he may be; It is ill thy luck to lose."

Sigurth had a great battle with Lyngvi, the son of Hunding, and his"

attestation: Hunding is characterized by greatness in the verse.

"25. "Combed and washed | shall the wise man go, And a meal at morn shall take; For unknown it is | where at eve he may be; It is ill thy luck to lose."

Sigurth had a great battle with Lyngvi, the son of Hunding, and his"