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* CreepyCemetery: Sailing by the island of Samsø where her father has been buried, Hervor, who is intent of recovering her father's sword, tries to persuade her viking band to make landfall and rob the gravemounds. The vikings however refuse because they know that the gravemounds of Samsø are haunted so that "it was worse to be there in the daytime than it was to be out at night in other places." So Hervor disembarks alone at sunset; as she goes near the gravemounds she meets a herdsman hurrying home who refuses to answer her questions about where her father's mound is and instead advises her to turn back at once because going near the gravemounds at night is suicide. As Hervor goes on, she sees ghostly "grave-fire" burning all over the mounds, and eventually calls her father's undead ghost forth from his grave.
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Choose your translation: [[http://www.germanicmythology.com/FORNALDARSAGAS/HERVARARKERSHAW.html Nora Kershaw]] (1921), [[http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/The%20Saga%20Of%20King%20Heidrek%20The%20Wise.pdf Christopher Tolkien (pdf file)]] (1960), [[http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/Hervor.htm Peter Tunstall]] (2005). A Cliffs Notes-esque version of the tale is included in the opening section of ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}: Ragnarok''.
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Choose your translation: [[http://www.germanicmythology.com/FORNALDARSAGAS/HERVARARKERSHAW.html Nora Kershaw]] (1921), [[http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/The%20Saga%20Of%20King%20Heidrek%20The%20Wise.pdf Christopher Tolkien (pdf file)]] (1960), [[http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/Hervor.htm germanicmythology.com/FORNALDARSAGAS/HervararSagaTunstall.html Peter Tunstall]] (2005). A Cliffs Notes-esque version of the tale is included in the opening section of ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}: Ragnarok''.
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* DrawSwordDrawBlood: Tyrfing "could never be held unsheathed without being the death of a man, and it always had to be sheathed with blood still warm upon it." This is told as a plain fact in the older version; in the younger version is is a curse laid on the sword by the dwarfs that made it. It is unclear how this spell works in practice, as Tyrfing is sheathed several times without anyone getting killed; while all wielders who do this come to a bad end, it is not obvious whether this is because of the curse.
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On a hunting expedition, King Svafrlami of [[KievanRus Russia]] captures two dwarfs and forces them to forge the ultimate sword for him in exchange for their life. The product is Tyrfing, a weapon so awesome it [[AbsurdlySharpBlade cuts stone and metal like butter]], inevitably kills anything so much as scratched by it, and lets its wielder win every fight. But alas, in vengeance for their humiliation the dwarfs have built in a few nasty surprises: The blade is enchanted so that it must always kill a man when unsheathed, that Svafrlami will die by it, and that it will be the instrument of three acts of parricide.
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On a hunting expedition, King Svafrlami of [[KievanRus [[UsefulNotes/KievanRus Russia]] captures two dwarfs and forces them to forge the ultimate sword for him in exchange for their life. The product is Tyrfing, a weapon so awesome it [[AbsurdlySharpBlade cuts stone and metal like butter]], inevitably kills anything so much as scratched by it, and lets its wielder win every fight. But alas, in vengeance for their humiliation the dwarfs have built in a few nasty surprises: The blade is enchanted so that it must always kill a man when unsheathed, that Svafrlami will die by it, and that it will be the instrument of three acts of parricide.
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''The Saga of Hervor and Heidrek'' a.k.a. ''Hervor's Saga'' a.k.a. ''The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise'' is a 13th century legendary saga, forming a part of NorseMythology.
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''The Saga of Hervor and Heidrek'' a.k.a. ''Hervor's Saga'' a.k.a. ''The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise'' is a 13th century legendary saga, forming a part of NorseMythology.
Myth/NorseMythology.
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Recycled Plot is a redirect to Strictly Formula, which is \"Main plotline of every episode is basically the same.\" Neither is this a work \"in the same series\" as Poetic Edda, nor does it merely repeat the Plot of Vafþrúðnismál.
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* RecycledPlot: The riddle contest between Odin and Heidrek. The Literature/PoeticEdda has Odin giving away his identity the same way as he does here: "What did Odin whisper in the ear of his dead son?" Presumably, one of the sources copied the other. Scholars reckon the Eddaic poem to be the oldest.
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* RecycledPlot: The riddle contest between Odin and Heidrek. The Literature/PoeticEdda has Odin giving away his identity the same way as he does here: "What did Odin whisper in the ear of his dead son?" Presumably, one of the sources copied the other. Scholars reckon the Eddaic poem to be the oldest.
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1) Example Indentation. Please read it. 2) Recycled Plot is a redirect to Strictly Formula, which is \"Main plotline of every episode is basically the same.\" That is certainly not the case here.
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** RecycledPlot, because Odin did exactly the same to Vavthrudnir in the Literature/PoeticEdda.
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** RecycledPlot, because Odin did exactly the same to Vavthrudnir in the Literature/PoeticEdda.
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* RiddleMeThis: Heidrek plays a game of riddles with an old man, Odin in disguise. The old man beats him by asking, "What did Odin whisper in Balder's ear as they pushed his funeral boat out to sea?" This also gives away his identity, because Odin is the only person on the Nine Worlds who would know.
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Choose your translation: [[http://www.germanicmythology.com/FORNALDARSAGAS/HERVARARKERSHAW.html Nora Kershaw]] (1921), [[http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/The%20Saga%20Of%20King%20Heidrek%20The%20Wise.pdf Christopher Tolkien (pdf file)]] (1960), [[http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/Hervor.htm Peter Tunstall]] (2005).
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Choose your translation: [[http://www.germanicmythology.com/FORNALDARSAGAS/HERVARARKERSHAW.html Nora Kershaw]] (1921), [[http://vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/The%20Saga%20Of%20King%20Heidrek%20The%20Wise.pdf Christopher Tolkien (pdf file)]] (1960), [[http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/Hervor.htm Peter Tunstall]] (2005). A Cliffs Notes-esque version of the tale is included in the opening section of ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}: Ragnarok''.
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The giant Starkad Aludreng has eight arms and wields four swords at once in combat. He is eventually killed by Thor for abducting princess Alfhild of Alfheim.
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* AccidentalMurder: In the older version, Heidrek kills his brother Angantyr accidentally after he is sent away from Angantyr's party for causing disturbance. In going, Heidrek throws a stone into the dark where people are talking; the stone hits Angantyr and kills him.
