The Eddas

Svafnir

Role: king · First appears: Elder Edda · The Lay of Helgi Hiorvard's Son · Part 1

Life events

  • Hrodmar slew Svafnir and ravaged and burned his country.(Elder Edda · The Lay of Helgi Hiorvard's Son · Part 1 · 📍 Svavaland)
    • With: Hrodmar
    • “he had slain the king of Svavaland, and ravaged and burnt the country.”

Elder Edda · The Lay of Helgi Hiorvard's Son · Part 1

  • child: Sigrlinn “King Svafnir had a daughter of incomparable beauty, named Sigrlinn.”
  • enemies with Hrodmar “There was a king named Hrodmar, a wooer of Sigrlinn: he had slain the king of Svavaland, and ravaged and burnt the country.”

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