[Hlöðr’s poem] is a heroic eddic poem composed in
fornyrðislag[old story meter]. The poem’s stanzas are preserved within the legendary
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks[The Saga of Hervor and Heidrek], near the saga’s end, where the stanzas are interspersed with the saga’s prose.
Hlöðskviða’s stanzas survive in two of the three principal versions of
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. The version of the saga preserved in GKS 2845 4to, an Icelandic parchment manuscript from the fifteenth century and commonly referred to as the R-version, contains the first nine stanzas of the poem. A second version of the saga survives in two paper manuscripts (U1 and U2), collectively identified as the U-version: Uppsalabók or U1 = R: 715 of the University Library in Uppsala was written…
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Citation: McGillivray, Andrew. "Hlöðskviða". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 June 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41262, accessed 24 November 2024.]
