Hjaðningavíg

Moreover, it is alluded to in the Old English poems Deor[1] and Widsið,[3] and in the Old Norse Háttalykill inn forni, and a version of it survived down to the 18th century in the traditional Norn language ballad "Hildina".

In the Skáldskaparmál and in Ragnarsdrápa, it is related that once when Hǫgni was away, his daughter Hildr was kidnapped by a prince named Heðinn, the son of Hjarrandi (O.E.

In the older poem Ragnarsdrápa, Hǫgni finally found her and the island where Heðinn waited with his army.

Sörla þáttr is a short story in Flateyjarbok, a collection of tales about Norwegian kings written by two Christian priests in the 15th century, owned by a family from Flatey island.

In the end of the story, the arrival of Christianity dissolves the old curse that traditionally was to endure until Ragnarök.

Saxo Grammaticus relates that Hithinus was the prince of a Norwegian tribe and a small man.

Hithinus fell in love with Hilda, the daughter of Höginus, a strongly built Jutish chieftain.

For of old it was accounted shameful to deprive of his life one who was ungrown or a weakling; so closely did the antique bravery of champions take heed of all that could incline them to modesty.