Hervararkviða, (published in English translation as The Waking of Angantyr, or The Incantation of Hervor) is an Old Norse poem from the Hervarar saga, and which is sometimes included in editions of the Poetic Edda.
A key scene in the later medieval Ormars rímur, in which the hero awakens his father from the dead to retrieve his sword, was probably inspired by Hervararkviða.[1]
The poem was first translated into English by George Hickes in the early 18th century, as "The Waking of Angantyr", and republished in amended form by Thomas Percy as "The Incantation of Hervor" (1763). These works led to the poem's popularity as a subject for poetic translation in the late eighteenth century.
Roesdahl, Else; Meulengracht, Sorensen Preben; Sorensen, Preben Meulengracht, eds. (1996), The Waking of Angantyr: The Scandinavian Past in European Culture, ISBN87-7288-435-5
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French Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Krause, Todd B.; Slocum, Jonathan (eds.), "Lesson 8", Old Norse Online, The University of Texas at Austin, archived from the original on 5 April 2005 , textual analysis of the poem as part of a lesson in Old Norse