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Place in Norse mythology
Hindarfjall
or
Hindafjall
[1]
("Hind mountain") is the mountain where
Brynhildr
lives in the
Volsung cycle
.
In
Snorri Sturluson
's account of the Volsung cycle (
Skaldskaparmal
),
Sigurðr
first meets Brynhildr, whom he finds asleep, in a building on a mountain whose name is not given. Later, Brynhildr is said to live on Hindafjall, in a hall surrounded by wavering flames (
vafrlogi
). Sigurðr rides through them and asks for Brynhildr's hand, having taken the appearance of
Gunnarr
.
In the other sources (
Sigrdrifumal
,
Volsunga saga
), Hindarfjall is mentioned in relation with the first encounter: after killing
Fafnir
and
Reginn
, Sigurðr rides up onto Hindarfjall and goes south toward Frakkland. Then he sees a great light on a mountain. There stands a wall of shield, and behind it
Sigrdrifa
-
Brynhildr
[2]
asleep. The name of the place where the second meeting takes place, when Sigurðr rides through the flames after he and Gunnar exchanged forms, is not given.
Hindarfjall is also mentioned in
Fafnismal
, where the birds, which Sigurðr can understand after tasting Fafnir's blood, talk about a hall on Hindarfjall, surrounded with flames, where Sigrdrifa sleeps.
In
Helreið Brynhildar
, it is called
Skatalundr
, and there is an obscure stanza that Sigurðr first meet Brynhildr in her foster-father's home.
Notes
[
edit
]
- ^
Hindarfjall is used in the Eddic poems and in the
Volsunga saga
while Snorri wrote Hindafjall in his
Edda
.
- ^
Her name is Sigrdrifa in
Sigrdrifumal
, Brynhildr in the
Volsunga saga
.
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