Angantyr

Angantyr was the name of three characters from the same line in Norse mythology, and who appear in Hervarar saga, the Poetic Edda (the Waking of Angantyr and the Battle of the Goths and Huns), in Gesta Danorum and Faroese ballads.

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Angantyr's father Arngrim had given him the magic sword Tyrfing, which cut through anything like through cloth, and which killed a man every time it was unsheathed. He was the tallest of the twelve sons of the beserker Arngrim, and he and his eleven brothers spread fear and destruction through the North.

Hervarar saga: Hervarar saga ok Heidhreks is a remarkable fornaldarsaga from the 13th century combining matter from several older sagas. It is a valuable saga for several different reasons beside its literary qualities. It contains traditions of wars between Goths and Huns, from the 4th century, and it is also use...

Poetic Edda: The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems from the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri's Edda the Poetic Edda is the most important source we have on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends....

The Waking of Angantyr: The Waking of Angantyr or the Incantation of Hervor is a poem in the Poetic Edda, which is also found in the Hervarar saga....