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Most Middle High German heroic poems include Danish heroes, and in the Nibelungenlied a distinction seems to be made between Tenenmark (a march of the Holy Roman Empire between the rivers Schlei and Eider inhabited by Danes) and Tenenlant (a separate kingdom). [67] Drecanflis Old Norse: Drecanflis
The 9th c. Rök runestone lists names of Germanic heroes and events, but the significance of most of them is nowadays lost. The figures in the lists below are listed either by the name of their article on Wikipedia or, if there is no article, according to the name by which they are most commonly attested.
An originally continental Germanic name (Old High German Hagupart), from the noun *hag-("paddock, fenced area") or the adjective *hag-("comfortable, skilled") and *barð- ("beard"). [22] The son of Hámundr and the brother of Haki 1, he is mentioned in several sources both as a sea-king and as the hero of the Romeo and Juliet couple Hagbard and ...
In the mid-13th century, legendary sagas (Old Norse: fornaldarsögur) began to be written in the Old Norse vernacular, some of which derive from Scandinavian and Germanic heroic legends. [133] [134] Those sagas which contain older heroic legend are given the German name Heldensagas ("heroic sagas") in modern scholarly usage. [135]
The first element in the Middle High German name is hart ("hard"). [189] The name is probably of West Germanic origin, as no other Norse name contains the element *nīþ-, but it is common in the south. [191] In Völundarkviða, king of the Njárar, in Sweden, but in Þiðreks saga, a ruler in Jutland. Nithhad hamstrings Wayland the smith and ...
A name derived from PN *anuʀ ("ancestor") with a -k- suffix, or a hypocoristic form of a name with the same element. It is considered to correspond to the German name Anihho. [34] Áki 1 is the champion of the Danish king Alf 4 and takes part in a Danish attack on the Swedish king Buðli 2.
The name means "Golden-Hilt". [17] In Beowulf, the giant-sword with which the hero Beowulf slays Grendel's mother. In Hrólfs saga kraka, it is owned by Hrólfr kraki (Hróðulf), [18] who gives it to Hött, who uses it to "kill" the troll that terrorizes the Danes. Bödvar Bjarki had already killed it, but left it to look alive so that Hött ...
The name appears as the name of a sea-king in the sense "who steers against the wind", but in this case it may be based on the meaning "pasturage". [26] In the eddic poem Atlamál, the steward of Atli who suggests that instead of cutting out the heart of the brave hero Högni 2, they cut out the heart of the useless thrall Hjalli. [27] Atlamál