The Eddas

Andvari

Family: Dwarfs · Role: dwarf · First appears: Elder Edda · The Second Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide

Life events

  • In Regin's account to Sigurd, Andvari foretold that his gold would cause death to two brothers and dissension to eight princes.(Elder Edda · The Second Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide)
    • “That gold which the dwarf possessed, shall to two brothers be cause of death, and to eight princes, of dissension.”

Elder Edda · The Second Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide

  • parent: Oin “Andvari I am named, Oin was my father named; many a cataract have I passed.”

Also listed in Dwarfs — Minor Figures

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