The Fates.
Show referencesMagic shirt (cloak, armor) gives invulnerability.
Show referencesBerserk killed in combat about maiden.
Show referencesHero's precocious strength.
Show referencesOrdeal by hot iron.
Show referencesFake boasting of having killed his foster-brother makes his men follow the boaster.
Show referencesImpostor tries to push foster-brother into the water and then cuts rope so that he drifts alone out on the sea in boat without oars.
Show referencesOld king attacked.
Show referencesWarriors fiee after their chief's death.
Show referencesUnknown helper(s) emerge(s) in the last moment and turn(s) out later to be well known.
Show referencesMarriage by drinking festival, »drekka brúðlaup«.
Show referencesWedding feast.
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