Oddrun

Family: Budlungs · Role: Atil's sister · First appears: Chapter XXXII · Of the Ending of Brynhild

In Chapter XXXII, Gunnar is named as a suitor to Oddrun. In the Lament of Oddrun, she tells how they fell in love and secretly shared a bed; she also helped Borgny give birth to a boy and a girl.

At Hlesey, Oddrun heard Gunnar’s harp-song of distress, but arrived too late to save him. The lament also names her as the sister of Atil.

Relationship record

Life events

• In the Lament of Oddrun, Oddrun helped Borgny give birth to a boy and a girl.(Edda · The Lament of Oddrun)
  • With: Borgny
  • “Till a maid and a boy Might tread on the world's ways, Blithe babes and sweet Of Hogni's bane:”
• In the Lament of Oddrun, Oddrun and Gunnar fell in love and secretly shared a bed.(Edda · The Lament of Oddrun)
  • With: Gunnar
  • “But therewithal Gunnar The gold-scatterer Did I fall to loving And should have loved him.”
• In the Lament of Oddrun, Oddrun heard Gunnar's harp-song of distress but arrived too late to save him.(Edda · The Lament of Oddrun · 📍 Hlesey)
  • With: Gunnar
  • “Yet had I hearing, E'en out from Hlesey, How of sore trouble The harp-strings sang.”

Chapter XXXII · Of the Ending of Brynhild

• admirer: Gunnar “Thou shalt be fain to get Oddrun”

Edda · The Short Lay of Sigurd · Part 3

• admirer: Gunnar “Fain wilt thou be Oddrun to win,”

Edda · The Lament of Oddrun

• siblings with Atli “before Oddrun, Atil's sister, came to her”
• admired: Gunnar “But therewithal Gunnar The gold-scatterer Did I fall to loving And should have loved him.”
• protégé: Borgny “So may help thee All helpful things, Fey and Freyia, And all the fair Gods, As thou hast thrust This torment from me!”
• courtship with Gunnar “she who had been the love of Gunnar, Giuki's son.”

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