Örvar-Oddr (Old Norse: Ǫrvar-Oddr [ˈɔrvɑr-ˌodːr̩], "Arrow-Odd" or "Arrow's Point") is a legendary hero about whom an anonymous Icelander wrote a fornaldarsaga...
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Hjalmar and his duel for Ingeborg figures in the Hervarar saga and in Orvar-Odd's saga, as well as in Gesta Danorum, Lay of Hyndla and a number of Faroese...
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Hjalmar and Orvar-Odd's crewmen and began to cut them to pieces. Hjalmar and Orvar-Odd arrived to the scene to find their crew slain and Orvar-Odd, with only...
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Oscar Patric Sturzen-Becker (redirect from Orvar Odd)
Swedish poet, writer and journalist, who often wrote under the pseudonym Orvar Odd. He wrote several volumes of poetry, and worked at different newspapers...
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impenetrable armour, such as the shirt made by elves and used in battle by Örvar-Oddr (Ørvar Odd), as related in the Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. The saga was translated...
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sworn brother Orvar-Odd; but Hjalmar, being wounded by Tyrfing, has only time to sing his death-song before he dies, and asks Orvar-Odd to bring his body...
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bore that name. Namely, in Lejrekroniken, Gesta Danorum, and the Saga of Orvar-Odd; see Nerman (1925), p. 246-50. Lindbergh, Katarina Harrison (6 March 2017)...
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location. The location is also mentioned in Ásmundar saga kappabana and in Orvar-Odd's saga. In the latter saga, it is mentioned in the Swedish hero Hjalmar's...
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a legendary battle, when the Swedish champion Hjalmar and his friend Orvar-Odd fought against the twelve sons of the Swedish berserker Arngrim. This...
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