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TyrfingTyrfing was a sword that appears in the poem from the Elder Edda called The Waking of Angantýr, and in Hervarar saga. In Richard Wagner's opera, King Alberich gave it to Odin. Tyrfing was a cursed sword, and bore the misfortune that each time it was unsheathed, a man must die. Sigrlami, a king of the seed of Odin, forced the dwarves to forge the sword Tyrfing (ripper). They laid on it a curse, that it should bring death to its bearer, that no wound made by it should be healed and that three deeds of woe should be wrought by it. Sigrlami is slain by Arngrim, who inherits the sword. Eyfura, his wife, has twelve sons, all of whom become Vikings. Angantyr, the eldest, and his brothers, are eventually all slain near Upsala by Hjalmar, and his brother Arrow-Odd; but Hjalmar, being wounded by Tyrfing, has only time to sing his death-song before he dies. Angantyr's daughter, Herwor (by his wife Tofa) is brought up as a bond-maid, in ignorance of her parentage. When at last she learns it, the war-fury comes upon her, she arms herself as an Amazon, and goes to Munarvoe in Samsey, in quest of the dwarf-doomed weapon.
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