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Note to Anon Krm 15VIII

[2] Herþjófi ‘Herþjófr’: Herþjófr, lit. ‘Army-thief’, is a figure of legend of whom nothing is known, except that this name is one of those applied in Frið 36/3 by Friðþjófr, the hero of that saga, to himself, when replying in disguise to King Hringr of Ringerike’s inquiry as to his name; and it is also the name of a grandson of this Friðþjófr, Herþjófr Húnþjófsson, a king of Hǫrðaland (Hordaland) who in Gautr chs 3-5 (FSGJ 4, 11-26) kills King Haraldr of Agðir (Agder).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
  3. Internal references
  4. 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Gautreks saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 241. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=9> (accessed 26 April 2024)
  5. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 36 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 30)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 234.

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