Concerning Breaking into Barrows and Dealing with the Dead

It's our 12th anniversary Halloween episode, in which we look at three examples of encounters with burial mounds in Norse sagas.

Today's Texts:
The Saga of Hervor and Heithrek. In Stories and Ballads of the Far Past, translated by N. Kershaw, Cambridge UP, 1921, pp. 79-143. Internet Archive.
The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise. Translated by Christopher Tolkien, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1960. Viking Society.
The Story of Grettir the Strong. Translated by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris, New Ed., Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. Google Books.
Grettis saga. Edited by Valdimar Ásmundarson, 1900. Google Books.
Orkneyinga saga. In Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles, vol. 1, edited by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1887, pp. 1-221. Internet Archive.

Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:13:41 Text: from Okneyinga saga, Ch. 101
00:14:23 Commentary (1)
00:23:15 Text: from Grettis saga, Ch. 18
00:29:40 Commentary (2)
00:37:24 Text: from The Saga of Hervor and Heithrek, Ch. 2
00:41:33 Commentary (3)
00:44:09 Text: from The Saga of Hervor and Heithrek, Ch. 4-6
00:57:35 Commentary (4)
01:01:38 Riddle
01:02:44 Outro