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In the first poem (Helgakviða Hundingsbana I), Sinfjotle has his residence on the Bravellir (the plain west of Bråviken in East Götaland, see Battle of Bråvalla) and Helgi resides at Hringstaðir (probably modern Ringstad, an old royal estate on the same plain).
Helgi kills a king called Hunding and his sons and is given the cognomen Hundingsbane. Then he meets Sigrun, the daughter of a competing king of East Götaland, Högne, who has been promised against her will to Hothbrodd, the son of king Granmar of Södermanland.
Helgi collects a force at Brandey (probably modern Brändholmen, until 18131813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events March 17 Through a newspaper, the Prussian king Frederick William III of Prussia calls for resistance against the Napoleonic occupation April 27 War of 1812: Battle of York named Brandö, the modern Swedish form of Brandey) in the bay of Bråviken and goes to Granmarr's kingdom. It is retold in detail about the the gathering of the forces and of how Helge kills Hothbrodd and his brothers Gudmund and Starkad (all of Granmarr's sons).
Högni and one of his sons, BragiBragi, god of poetry Bragi in Norse mythology, is the god of poetry. From old sources The name may derive from bragr which as an adjective means 'best' and as a noun means 'skaldic poetry'. That latter meaning may be itself be derived from the name Bragi, die in the battle. Only Dag survives and he later slays Helge.
Both Högne and Helgi are described as kings of East Götaland, which may seem to be a contradiction. However, in the HeimskringlaHeimskringla is the Icelandic name of a collection of sagas recorded in Iceland around 1225 by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1179-1242). The collection contains tales about the Norwegian kings, beginning with the legendary Swedish dynasty of th we learn that Högne was the father-in-law of the Ylfing Hjörvard. Since both are Ylfings or married into the clan, the battle between Helgi and Högne was apparently a civil war. The existence of a civil war may explain why Hjörvard was a sea-king, a man without roof, in spite of the fact that he was described by Sögubrot as a former ruler of East Götaland. If so, the legends may be based on a civil war where Högne had usurped the throne from Hjörvard, but was killed by Hjörvard's kinsman Helgi.
The Völsung origin is most likely a later addition, since the legends of Sigurd describe events in the 5th century and those of Helgi describe events in the 7th century. Moreover, in the 7th or 8th century poem Beowulf, the legends of Sigmund were already known.