[All]: Manuscript R715ˣ, in keeping with its tendency to omit narrative (i.e. non-dialogue) verse, does not contain this helmingr. See also Heiðr 90b Note to [All]. The appearance of a minor character for the protagonist to run into late at night in order to move the plot along and explain the setting is utilised elsewhere in the saga in the poetry leading up to Hervǫr’s dialogue with her father Angantýr, Heiðr 18-24.
References
- Internal references
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 65 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 18)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 429.
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 90 (Hlǫðr Heiðreksson, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 460.