Tyrfing

As described in its legends, Tyrfing wasthe keenest of all blades; every time it was drawn a light shone from it like a ray of the sun.

Then he forced them to forge a sword with a golden hilt that would never miss a stroke, would never rust and would cut through stone and iron as easily as through clothes.

When Svafrlami heard the curses he tried to slay Dvalinn, but the dwarf disappeared into the rock and though the sword was driven deep into it, it missed its intended victim.

Upon learning of her parentage, she armed herself as a shieldmaiden, and travelled to Munarvoe in Samsø in an attempt to recover her father's weapon.

There she visited her father's burial mound and spoke with the ghost of the dead man, who warned her Tyrfing would bring ill-fortune to her descendants.

She then counters her father by threatening him with the "curse of annihilation" if he keeps the sword, saying that he and his brothers "shall waste away as in an anthill," and that it was "not fitting that the dead should hold such a precious weapon.

Heidrek was accompanied by a number of thralls, and due to Odin's anger that night they entered his tent and slew him in his sleep, the third and final of Tyrfing's evil deeds.

Heidrek's son, also named Angantyr (the third), caught and killed the thralls and reclaimed the magic sword, finally satisfying the dwarfs' curse.

Angantyr was the next king of the Goths, but his illegitimate half-Hun brother Hlod (or Hlöd, Hlöðr) wanted half of the kingdom.

The bodies of the numerous warriors choked the rivers, causing a flood which filled the valleys with dead men and horses.

[4] For links to source text in English translation and Old Norse and for general commentary see Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks.

One maintains that it is possibly connected to the Thervingi (or Tervingi), a Gothic tribe recorded by Roman sources in the 4th century.

Science fiction author Poul Anderson included Tyrfing in his medieval fantasy novel The Broken Sword.

Tyrfing has been used as the name of a hot sauce on Hot Ones,[7] the name of a "demon sword" in High School DxD,[citation needed] a holy weapon in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War,[8] and a cursed sword in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.