Definition of Thidreks. Meaning of Thidreks. Synonyms of Thidreks

- Þiðreks saga af Bern ('the saga of Þiðrekr of Bern', sometimes Thidrekssaga or Thidreks saga in English) is an Old Norse saga that collects almost all...
- Notes on the Þiðreks saga: As names in the Þiðreks saga typically adapt a German name, only figures that are not attested outside of the Þiðreks saga are...
- in the Old Norse sources Völundarkviða (a poem in the Poetic Edda) and Þiðreks saga. In them, Wayland is a smith who is enslaved by a king. Wayland takes...
- Egil is a legendary hero of the Völundarkviða and the Thidreks saga. The name is from Proto-Germanic *Agilaz, and the same legend is reflected in Old English...
- Âventiure 25). They are called sjókonar ("sea women") in the Old Norse Þiđreks saga. There is a swan maiden tale motif involved here (Hagen robs their...
- happen, Sigurð first wields Gram and cuts off Reginn's head. The Norwegian Þiðreks saga relates a slightly different tale, with Reginn as the dragon and Mimir...
- dragon is normally viewed by scholars as the German equivalent of Fáfnir. Þiðreks saga gives an account of Sigurð killing a dragon that shows similarities...
- Icelandic, the term linnormr was used to translate German sources to produce Þiðreks saga (an Old Norse chivalric saga adapted from the Continent from the late...
- of Siegfried in the German tradition, is a maternal half-brother in the Thidreks saga. Gudrún bore to Sigurd a son named Sigmund according to the Völsunga...
- referred to today as "sagas" were composed in Iceland. One exception is Þiðreks saga, translated/composed in Norway; another is Hjalmars och Hramers saga...