Georges Dumézil and others have argued that Hadingus was partially modelled on the god Njörðr. Hadingus is the legendary son of Gram of Denmark and Signe...
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dinner, King Hadingus is visited by a woman bearing stalks of hemlock who asks him if he knows where such fresh herbs grow in winter. Hadingus wants to know;...
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In book I, the young Hadingus encounters "a certain man of great age who had lost an eye" who allies him with Liserus. Hadingus and Liserus set out to...
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Hadingus and Fjölnir to Hundingus, but the story is a little different. It relates how King Hundingus of Sweden believed a rumor that King Hadingus of...
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to tell of this Gram who becomes the father of Hadingus of whom he has even more to relate, Hadingus in turn becomes the father of a king Frotho I who...
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Harðgreipr having Hadingus place spells under the tongue of a corpse as an initiation into one of Odin's realms, necromancy. In The Saga of Hadingus, Georges Dumézil...
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Saga of Hadingus. Translated by Coltman, Derek. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. — translation of Du myth au roman: La saga de Hadingus —— (1973)...
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the work, where the beginning of an annual blót to him is related. King Hadingus is cursed after killing a divine being and atones for his crime with a...
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Dumézil pointed out that in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, the hero Hadingus' life closely parallels Njörðr's, including a relationship with his foster-sister...
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