Source: handrit.is
N.B.: the H-version of the text does not contain the relevant section below on the descent of the Skjöldungs from Heiðrekr úlfhamr (Wolf-skin).
First page of the H-version of the Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks from the Hauksbók, A.M. 544 4to, 72v, dating from c. 1325, written in the hand of Haukr Erlendsson (d.1334).
Source: handrit.is
N.B.: the H-version of the text does not contain the relevant section below on the descent of the Skjöldungs from Heiðrekr úlfhamr (Wolf-skin).
| Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 15. “Frá Konungaættum Dana ok Svía” Angantýr var lengi konungr í Reiðgotalandi. Hann var ríkr ok hermaðr mikill, ok eru frá honum komnar konunga ættir. Sonr hans var Heiðrekr úlfhamr, er síðan var lengi konungr í Reiðgotalandi. Hann átti dóttur, er Hildr hét. Hún var móðir Hálfdanar snjalla, föður Ívars ins víðfaðma….Ívarr lagði þá undir sik allt Danaveldi, ok síðan setti hann þar yfir Valdar konung ok gifti honum Álfhildi, dóttur sína. Þeira sonr var Haraldr hilditönn ok Randvér, er fell í Englandi. En Valdarr andaðist í Danmörk; tók þá Randvér Danaríki ok gerðist konungr yfir. En Haraldr hilditönn lét gefa sér konungsnafn í Gautlandi, ok síðan lagði hann undir sik öll framar nefnd ríki, er Ívarr konungr inn víðfaðmi hafði átt. Randvér konungr fekk Ásu, dóttur Haralds konungs ins granrauða norðan ór Noregi. Sonr þeira var Sigurðr hringr. Randvér konungr varð bráðdauðr, en Sigurðr hringr tók konungdóm í Danmörk. Hann barðist við Harald konung hilditönn á Brávelli í eystra Gautlandi, ok þar fell Haraldr konungr ok mikill fjöldi liðs með honum. Þessar orrostur hafa í fornum sögum frægastar verit ok mest mannfall orðit ok sú, er Angantýr ok hans bróðir börðust á Dúnheiði. Sigurðr konungr hringr réð Danaríki til dauðadags, en eptir hann Ragnarr konungr loðbrók, sonr hans. | 6: The Lineage of Harald from Adam “Angantýr was long king in Reidgotaland; he was mighty, and a great warrior, and lines of kings are sprung from him. His son was Heidrek Wolfskin, who afterwards was long king in Reidgotaland; he had a daughter who was named Hild, and she was the mother of Hálfdan the Valiant, the father of Ívar the Wide-Grasping…Ívar the Wide-Grasping subjected to himself all the realm of the Danes, and set over it King Valdar, giving to him Álfhild for his wife. Their sons were Harald War-Tooth and Randvér, who was afterwards slain in England. But Valdar died in Denmark, and Randvér succeeded to the Danish realm and became king over it; Harald War-tooth took to himself the name of king in Gautland, and afterwards laid beneath him all the realms aforesaid, over which Ívar the Wide-Grasping had been lord. King Randvér took as his wife Ása, daughter of King Harald the Red-bearded, from Norway in the north, and their son was Sigurd Ring. The Death of King Randvér was sudden, and Sigurd Rind succeeded to the kingdom of the Danes. He fought with King Harald War-tooth at Brávöll in eastern Gautland, and there fell King Harald and a mighty array. This battle, and that which Angantýr and Hlöd his brother fought on the Danube Heath, are the most renowned in the ancient tales, with the greatest count of slain. King Sigurd Ring ruled over Denmark till the day of his death, and his son King Ragnar Hairy-breeches after him.”1 |
1. Translation from Christopher Tolkien, The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1960), 59-60.
Chart showing the geneaology found in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (R), Saga Heiðreks konungs ins vitra (H, U), Örvar-Odds saga (The Saga of Hervör and Heiðrekr, part 1, part 2,
part 3, part 4, part 5, and Örvar-Odds saga).
