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Line 1: {{work\|wppage=Hrólfs saga kraka}} {{Infobox book [[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> ]]▼ \| title = The Saga of Hrólf Kraki \| original title = Hrólfs saga kraka ''[[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.]]▼ \| image = HrolfKrakisLastStand_crop_7674.jpg ▲~~[[File:HrolfKrakisLastStand_crop_7674.jpg\|frame~~ \| caption = 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> ]]~~ \| author = \| central theme = \| elevator pitch = \| genre = Historical fiction \| publication date = 13th century \| source page exists = \| wiki URL = \| wiki name = }} ▲''[[The Saga of Hrólf Kraki]]'' (''Hrólfs saga kraka'') is a 13th century [[The Icelandic Sagas\|Icelandic Legendary Saga]] about the legendary Danish king ~~Hrolf~~Hrólf Kraki, who would have lived – if he lived - in the [[Dark Age Europe\|early 6th century.]] 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. Line 63 ⟶ 75: {{reflist}} [[Category:The Epic]] [[Category:~~Classic~~ Literature of the 13th century]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Literature]]