id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2345 Hlöðskviða - Wikipedia .html text/html 2052 438 77 Old Norse epic poem about a battle of Goths and Huns. Hlöðskviða (also Hlǫðskviða and Hlǫðsqviða), known in English as The Battle of the Goths and Huns and occasionally known by its German name Hunnenschlachtlied, is an Old Norse epic poem found in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. Hlöðr, whose mother was the daughter of Humli, king of the Huns, and who was born and raised among the Huns, claimed half the inheritance, Angantýr refused to split evenly and war ensued, claiming first Hervör, their sister, then Hlöðr himself as casualties. Poetic Edda, the poem generally does not appear in Eddic poetry collections (exceptions include Vigfússon & Powell 1883 and Jónnson 1956 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFJónnson1956 (help)), but contains some poetry in a similar style (1883), "(Book.5 § 5) The Hun's Cycle : Hlod and Angantheow's Lay", Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, 1 Eddic Poetry, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. The Battle of the Goths and the Huns", Anglo-Saxon and Norse poems ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2345.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2345.txt