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[[File:HrolfKrakisLastStand_crop_7674.jpg|frame|Hrólf Kraki's Last Stand. <small> <ref>Copyright holder's message: ''Picture is retrieved from the project "Old educational posters" at the Centre for Texts in Teaching, the College of Vestfold, at'' http://www-lu.hive.no/plansjer.</ref> </small> ]]▼
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''[[The Saga of Hrólf Kraki]]'' (''Hrólfs saga kraka'') is a 13th century [[The Icelandic Sagas|Icelandic Legendary Saga]] about the legendary Danish king Hrolf Kraki, who would have lived – if he lived - in the [[Dark Age Europe|early 6th century.]]▼
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▲''[[The Saga of Hrólf Kraki]]'' (''Hrólfs saga kraka'') is a 13th century [[The Icelandic Sagas|Icelandic Legendary Saga]] about the legendary Danish king
King Helgi of [[Denmark]], of the famous Skjöldung line, is an accomplished [[Horny Vikings|Viking]] raider. On one of these raids, Helgi rapes Queen Oluf of the Saxons. Years later, on another foray to Saxony, he kidnaps a beautiful shepherd girl, Yrsa. He marries her. Queen Oluf waits until Yrsa is pregnant, then reveals to Helgi that Yrsa is his own daughter.
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