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| | Viktor Rydberg — Teutonic Mythology — Volume I, Part III, Chapters 20—30 |
 | | As is well known, the family names Ylfings, Hildings, Budlungs, &c., have in the poems of the Christian skalds lost their specific application to certain families, and are applied to royal and princely warriors in general. |
 | | The poems concerning Helge Hundingsbane are compiled in Christian times from old songs about Borgar’s son Halfdan, and we find that the patronymic appellations Ylfing, Hilding, Budlung, and Lofdung are copiously |
 | | The German poem “Wolfdieterich und Sabin” calls Berchtung (Borgar) Potelung — that is, Budlung; the poem “Wolfdieterich” makes Berchtung the progenitor of the Hildings, and adds: “From the same race the Ylfings have come to us” — von dem selbe geslehte sint uns die wilfinge kumen (v. |
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