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In the Icelandic ‘Prose (or Younger) Edda’, Atli is called Atli Budlason. In this version, Atli killed Hogni, but had his wife’s brother, King Gunnar, thrown into a snake pit. In the pit, Gunnar charmed snakes with a magic harp, but, nevertheless, one snake was able to kill him.
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Lay of Atli, heroic poem in the Norse Poetic Edda (see Edda), an older variant of the tale of slaughter and revenge that is the subject of the German epic Nibelungenlied, from which it differs in several respects. In the Norse poem, Atli (the Hunnish king Attila) is the villain, who is slain by his.
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Atli. Quick Reference. In Norse legend, the king of the Huns, who marries the Niblung princess Gudrun. She allows him to kill her brothers, Gunnar and Hogni, in revenge for their murder of her husband Sigurd, but finally kills Atli herself. Atli represents the historical Attila; his Germanic equivalent in the Nibelungenlied is Etzel.
Atlamál in grǿnlenzku (The Greenlandic Lay of Atli) is one of the heroic poems of the Poetic Edda. It relates the same basic story as Atlakviða at greater length and in a different style. The poem is believed to have been composed in Greenland, most likely in the 12th century.
Aug 30, 2022 · He was the father of Attil, father of Vifil, father of Laefa, father of Budla, father of Sorla or Serla, and Atla and Brynhilda, mother of Aslaug, and her lineage of Harald Fair-haired is called Budlingar. He has been linked to the historic Attila the Hun and to the fictional Etzel in the Nibelundenlied.
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1866 translation from Old Norse to English by Benjamin Thorpe from the original Lay of Atli (Old Norse: Atlakviða), preserved in the Codex Regius manuscript. Gudrún, Giuki’s daughter, avenged her brothers, as is well known. She first killed Atli’s sons, and afterwards Atli himself, and burnt the palace with all the household.
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Atlakviða - The Greenland Lay of Atli. The poem is in the Poetic Edda in the Codex Regius, broken down into 5 stanza seqments so that the Old Norse can match the English translations. Voluspa.org - Information, analysis and studies on Germanic Pre-Christian religion, culture and heritage, using the Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Sagas and Germanic ...
