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Hjaðningavíg

Gape e bidiwa: Battle of the Heodenings, Hildr's everlasting battle
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengBoloi

The Hjaðningavíg is the never-ending battle of Norse legend. Two armies destroy each other every day, and every night a woman's sorcery puts the corpses back on their feet to do it again until the end of the world. It is one of the oldest European images of the dead raised in mass by magic and compelled to act with no will of their own. The motif of an army that cannot stay dead recurs throughout later fantasy and horror.1

Di lwantshe
Tshimologo
Norse / Germanic
Bogosi jo bo Kopaneng, Norway, Iceland, Denmark
Se se e bakang
Boloi
Each night Hildr raises the slain of both armies with incantations so that the battle can start again.
O fetoga yone jang
Warriors killed in the feud between Heðinn and Hǫgni over Hǫgni's daughter Hildr.
Bokoa
  • in Snorri nothing ends it before Ragnarök
  • in Sörla þáttr the coming of Christianity breaks the curse
dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

Snorri sets the battle on the island of Hoy in Orkney1

2

Hǫgni's sword Dáinsleif gives wounds that never heal1

3

Hildr is both the cause of the war and the one who keeps it going1

4

Saxo has both leaders die and Hilda conjure the dead back each night1

5

The legend was known in England, where the 10th-century poem Deor mentions the Heodenings1

Metswedi

  1. Hja%C3%B0ningav%C3%ADg - Wikipedia

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