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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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''Hrolf Kraki's Saga'' is also the name of a novel by [[Poul Anderson]], a retelling of ''Hrólfs saga kraka'' augmented by various other sources on King Hrolf, such as Saxo Grammaticus’ ''Gesta Danorum'' and the ''Prose Edda''.
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* [[Cool Sword]]: Bödvar Bjarki's sword willed to him from his father is a supreme weapon, but it has also many magic limitations: If drawn, it can only be put back into the scabbard after having killed a man, and Bödvar is not allowed to put it under his head when sleeping, to whet it more than three times in his life, and to use it at all during certain intervals.
* [[Cycle of Revenge]]: Helgi tries to kidnap Oluf and is embarrassed by Olof whereupon Helgi rapes Oluf whereupon Oluf gets her revenge as described above.
* [[Death of the Old Gods]]: In a metafictional sense in the [[Poul Anderson]] version. The story begins when [[Anglo Saxons|Athalstan]]
* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]]: When the superhumanly strong Elk-Frodi is called out for maiming or killing other kids, he argues that it's not his fault that they are so frail.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: ''Hrolfs saga'' makes it a point that Hrolf is physically unimpressive. This is the exact opposite of Hrolf’s description in ''Gesta Danorum'', where he is unusually tall and strong. ''Gesta Danorum'' has also the scene when Vögg (Wigg) wonders at Hrolf’s size – only he wonders at Hrolf being so big, while in ''Hrolfs saga'' he wonders that he is so ''short''.
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