Medieval Scandinavian Motif Database

Bibliography for: Helreið

Helreið Brynhildar, in Sophus Bugge's edition of Sæmundar Edda, https://archive.org/details/norrnfornkviisl00eddagoog , p. 260-63.

Works with this reference:

P252.4.

Eight sisters.

T350.

Chaste sleeping together.

Helreið 12;
Knytl ch. 31;
HrólfKr 63 ch. 23 (FAS I 63)/
cf. ESveinsson 1929 xxxiv.

V61.2.

Dead burned on pyre.

cf. E431.13;
E446.2;
P16.4;
T211.2.
Prologus to Hkr;
Ys ch. 8 ff.;
Helreið/
SgFIII 66-70/
Guðrúnarhvöt 20 in SæmE 258 ff./
Völs ch. 33/
Nornag 69 ch. 8 (FAS I 333, Flb I 355);
RagnarL ch. 18 (19);
Saxo lib. III c. II 11, lib. V c. VIII 1;
cf. Vries 16 ff., 26, 29;
Weinhold 480 ff.

V61.5.

King buried in his war car.

Sögubr 24 ch. 9 (FAS I 386-87)/
cf. Saxo lib. VII c. V. 1 =
Herrm 551;
Brynhildr:
 Helreið in BuggeE 260 =
 Nornag 69 ch. 8 (FAS I 333);
Weinhold 483.