Inherited through the line of the berserker Angantr and his warloving daughter Hervorthe everlethal shining sword Tyrfing and its changes of hands frame the uncanny story ofThe Saga of Hervor and Heidrek.A second heroic sagaHrlf Kraki and His Champions recounts the daring deeds of the members and entourage of the ancient Danish house of Skjoldung. Passed down orally in preChristian Norse times transmitted in writing in medieval Iceland and here wielded by the hand of Jackson Crawford the tale