The Eddas

Budlungs — Minor Figures

4 figures from The Eddas who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Hialli

thrall · first appears Elder Edda · The Groenland Lay of Atli · Part 2

  • Elder Edda · The Groenland Lay of Atli · Part 2 · employer: Budli “Budli's cook they took, and the knife brought towards him.”
  • Elder Edda · The Groenland Lay of Atli · Part 2 · patron: Hogni “Hogni all this observed--few so act, as for a slave to intercede, that he may escape!--“Less 'tis, I say, for me to play this game myself.”

Vingi

messenger · first appears Elder Edda · The Groenland Lay of Atli · Part 2

  • Elder Edda · The Groenland Lay of Atli · Part 2 · enemies with Hogni “They rushed on Vingi, and struck him dead, laid on their axes, while life within him throbbed.”

Beiti

steward · first appears Elder Edda · The Groenland Lay of Atli · Part 2

  • Elder Edda · The Groenland Lay of Atli · Part 2 · employer: Atli “Beiti spake,--he was Atli's steward--Take we Hialli, but Hogni let us save.”

Knefrud

messenger · first appears Elder Edda · The Lay of Atli · Part 1

  • Elder Edda · The Lay of Atli · Part 1 · employer: Atli “Atli sent riding a messenger to Gunnar, a crafty man, Knefrud was his name.”

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