Case file · Haunting
Hervör wakes the dead on Samsø
In Hervarar saga (13th century), the shield-maiden Hervör goes to the burning burial mounds on the Danish island of Samsø and forces her dead father Angantýr to give up the cursed sword Tyrfing.
1250 CE · 55.87, 10.62 · status: legend
The account
The 'Waking of Angantýr' is one of the great dialogue poems between the living and the dead in Old Norse literature.