Hlöðskviða

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Hlöðskviða (also Hlǫðskviða and Hlǫðsqviða), known in English as The Battle of the Goths and Huns and occasionally known by its German name Hunnenschlachtlied, is an heroic poem in Old Norse found in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. Many attempts have been made to try to fit the Hlöðskviða with known history, but it is an epic poem, telescoping and fictionalising history to a large extent; some verifiable historical information from the time are place names, surviving in Old Norse forms from the period 750–850, but it was probably collected later in Västergötland. Most scholars place the tale sometime in the 4th and 5th centuries, with the battle occurring either in Central Europe near the Carpathian Mountains or further east in European Russia.

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