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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (Vǫls) 1VIII (Vǫls 1)

[3] hjörvi ‘with his sword’: According to Vǫls ch. 3, Sigmundr obtains his sword by drawing it out of the trunk of an apple tree growing in the middle of his father’s hall. Like King Arthur and his acquisition of the sword Excalibur, only Sigmundr can withdraw the sword from the tree-trunk into which it has been plunged by Óðinn.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Vǫls = Vǫlsunga saga.

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