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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]] s holding court with a bishop as guest. A woman is telling a story in another room. When asked to tell the tale she replies that it is a "heathenish tale" and not fit to be told in a bishop's presence. Whereupon the bishop says it is all right. This displays the [[End of an Age|the onset of Christianity]] and [[Dawn of an Era|hopefully civilization]] and thus creates a more happy side to a rather [[Dark Fantasy]].
* [[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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