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It is unnecessary here to continue the story as the saga does, working out the doom over later generations; over Hervör's son Heidrek, who forfeited his head to Odin in a riddle-contest, and over his children, another Angantyr, Hlod, and a second Hervör. The verse sources for this latter part are very corrupt.
According to Keating, they learnt the art of necromancy in the East, and taught it to the Danes. There is a modern German translation by Simrock. Angantyr. The poems of this cycle are four in number Hjalmar's Death-song: Angantyr and Hervör; Heidrek's Riddle-Poem: Angantyr the Younger and Hlod. All are given in the first volume of the Corpus, with translations.
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