Hlöðskviða

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title: Hlöðskviða
text: Hlöðskviða, known in English as The Battle of the Goths and Huns and occasionally known by its German name Hunnenschlachtlied, is an Old Norse heroic poem found in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. Many attempts have been made to try to fit it with known history, but it is an epic poem, telescoping and fictionalising history to a large extent; some verifiable historical information from the time are place names, surviving in Old Norse forms from the period 750–850, but it was probably collected later i
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description: Old Norse heroic poem about a battle of Goths and Huns.
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hl%C3%B6%C3%B0skvi%C3%B0a
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date modified: 2023-08-09T00:03:58Z
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