Hindarfjall

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Hindarfjall or Hindafjall

Völsung cycle
.

In

Gunnarr
.

In the other sources (

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 Fáfnismál, where the birds, which Sigurðr can understand after tasting Fáfnir's blood, talk about a hall on Hindarfjall, surrounded with flames, where Sigrdrífa 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

  1. ^ Hindarfjall is used in the Eddic poems and in the Völsunga saga while Snorri wrote Hindafjall in his Edda.
  2. ^ Her name is Sigrdrífa in Sigrdrífumál, Brynhildr in the Völsunga saga.