Yrsa

Role: Adils’ wife; Rolf Krake’s mother · First appears: Younger Edda · Poetical Diction · Rolf Krake

Life events

• Yrsa gave Rolf Krake the ring Sviagris and gold, and urged him to ride to his army.(Younger Edda · Poetical Diction · Rolf Krake)
  • With: Rolf Krake
  • “Now Yrsa came and handed Rolf Krake a deer’s horn full of gold, and with it she gave him the ring Sviagris, and requested them to ride straightway to their army.”

Younger Edda · Poetical Diction · Rolf Krake

• child: Rolf Krake “Yrsa, his mother, received him and took him to his lodgings, but not to the king’s hall.”
• married with Adils “In Upsala reigned a king by name Adils, whose wife was Yrsa, Rolf Krake’s mother.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Eddas. Made with Rho MD.