Bodvild

Role: Nidud's daughter · First appears: Elder Edda · The Lay of Volund · Part 1

Life events

• Nidud gave Bodvild the ring taken from Volund and kept Volund's sword.(Elder Edda · The Lay of Volund · Part 1)
  • With: Nidud Volund
  • “King Nidud gave to his daughter Bodvild the ring which had been taken from the bast in Volund's house; but he himself bore the sword that had belonged to Volund.”
• Volund reveals that Bodvild is pregnant with his child.(Elder Edda · The Lay of Volund · Part 2)
  • With: Volund
  • “Now Bodvild goes big with child, the only daughter of you both.”
• Bodvild admits that she and Volund sat together on the isle.(Elder Edda · The Lay of Volund · Part 2 · 📍 the isle)
  • With: Volund
  • “True it is, Nidud! what has been told to thee, that Volund and I in the isle together sat, in an unlucky hour: would it had never been!”

Elder Edda · The Lay of Volund · Part 1

• parent: Nidud “There was a king in Sweden named Nidud: he had two sons and a daughter, whose name was Bodvild.”
• patron: Nidud “King Nidud gave to his daughter Bodvild the ring which had been taken from the bast in Volund's house;”

Elder Edda · The Lay of Volund · Part 2

• courtship with Volund “She mourned her lover's absence, and for her father's wrath.”
• parent: Nidud “Now Bodvild goes big with child, the only daughter of you both.”

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