Editing Örvar-Oddr (section)

==Analysis==
The saga includes several stories, such as the voyage of [[Ottar from Hålogaland]] to Bjarmaland, the legend of [[Hjalmar]]'s foster-brother (originally named ''Söte''), [[Starkaðr]], [[Ketil Höing]], [[Odysseus]] and [[Polyphemus]], [[Sigurd Jorsalfare]] and the Rus' ruler [[Oleg of Novgorod]] (the attack on Bjalkaland).

The motif of Örvar-Oddr's mocking the prophecy and death has parallels in the [[Primary Chronicle]], which describes the manner of the death of [[Oleg of Novgorod|Oleg]] (also of Varangian origin) in similar terms. Oleg's legendary death from "the skull of a horse" became the subject of one of the best known ballads in the [[Russian language]], published by [[Alexander Pushkin]] in 1826. Another variant on the same theme is found in the legend of [[Isle of Sheppey#Shurland Hall|Sir Robert de Shurland]] on the [[Isle of Sheppey]] in Kent, England, recorded in the 17th century, and which in 1837 inspired one of the popular ''[[Ingoldsby Legends]]'' of [[Richard Barham]].<ref>{{cite journal |first=Oliver D. |last=Harris |title="Grey Dolphin" and the Horse Church, Minster in Sheppey: the construction of a legend |journal=Archaeologia Cantiana |volume=144 |year=2023 |pages=97–123 }}</ref>

Ögmundr Flóki owned a cloak made from the beards of kings he collected, as did the giant of Mont Saint-Michel, enemy of King Arthur in Brittany.{{sfnp|Tracy|2017|pp=327–328}}{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|The giant which was called Retho by [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]], and Royns (Ryence, Ryens, Ryons) by [[Thomas Malory]].<ref name=nickel/>}}