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    Nationalencyklopedin Nordisk familjebok Hamðismál English translation by Benjamin Thorpe Hamðismál in Old Norse. Hamðismál (Old Norse) Hamðismál (English)...
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    Norns (section Hamðismál)
    incited her sons to avenge the cruel death of their sister Svanhild. In Hamðismál, her sons' expedition to the Gothic king Ermanaric to exact vengeance...
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    many northern European stories, including the Old Norse Poetic Edda (Hamðismál and Guðrúnarhvöt), Prose Edda, and Völsunga Saga; the skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa;...
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    Gudrun (section Hamðismál)
    on the same funeral pyre. Gudrun appears briefly at the beginning of Hamðismál: she encourages her sons to avenge Svanhild, which they reluctantly agree...
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    Guðrúnarhvöt (Gudrún's Inciting, Gudrún's Lament, The Whetting of Gudrún.) Hamðismál (The Ballad of Hamdir, The Lay of Hamdir) Several of the legendary sagas...
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    some of which was also preserved in the Scandinavian eddic heroic poem Hamðismál. A pagan society banished people who had used sorcery to violate norms...
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    the more specific labels norns, fylgjas, and valkyries. The eddic poem Hamðismál deals with how Hamðir and Sörli go to the Gothic king Ermanaric to exact...
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    Oddrúnargrátr (Oddrún's Lament) Atlakviða (The Lay of Atli) Atlamál (The Greenlandic Lay of Atli) Guðrúnarhvöt (Guðrún's Cause) Hamðismál (Talk of Hamðir)...
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    many northern European stories, including the Icelandic Poetic Edda (Hamðismál and Guðrúnarhvöt), Prose Edda and the Volsunga Saga; the Norwegian Ragnarsdrápa;...
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    verses similar to those found in early eddaic poems such as Atlakviða or Hamðismál, whilst other lines are less rich. Most editions number the stanzas, but...
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