Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar
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Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar (Lay of Helgi Hjörvarðsson) is an Eddic poem, found in the Codex Regius manuscript where it follows Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and precedes Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. The portion of text which constitutes the poem is unnamed in the manuscript and may never have been intended to be viewed as a single poem, though scholars have assigned it a name for convenience. The text appears to be a patchwork of old poems, glued together with prose passages. The poem relates the story of Helgi Hjörvarðsson, loosely connected to the story of Helgi Hundingsbani.
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- Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar Translation and commentary by Henry A. Bellows
- Helgakviþa Hiörvarðs Sonar Translation by Benjamin Thorpe
- Helgakviða Hjorvarþssonar Translation by Lee M. Hollander
- Helgakviða Hiörvarðssonar Sophus Bugge's edition of the manuscript text
- Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar Guðni Jónsson's edition of the text with normalized spelling
