The Beowulf poet is clearly referring to the legends about Theoderic the Great. Of Eormanric the Goth, chose eternal reward. To the shining city the Brosings' necklace, The brief mention in Beowulf is as follows (trans. Attestations Beowulf īrísingamen is referred to in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf as Brosinga mene. However, Brísingr can also be an ethnonym, in which case Brísinga men is "torque of the Brísings" the Old English parallel in Beowulf supports this derivation, though who the Brísings (Old Norse Brísingar) may have been remains unknown. It has been derived from Old Norse brísingr, a poetic term for "fire" or "amber" mentioned in the anonymous versified word-lists ( þulur) appended to many manuscripts of the Prose Edda, making Brísingamen "gleaming torc", "sunny torc", or the like. The etymology of the first element is uncertain. The name is an Old Norse compound brísinga-men whose second element is men "(ornamental) neck-ring (of precious metal), torc". In Norse mythology, Brísingamen (or Brísinga men) is the torc or necklace of the goddess Freyja. Heimdall returns Brisingamen to Freyja, painting by Nils Blommér (1846).
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