The Story of the Volsungs

Eylimi

Role: king · First appears: Chapter XI · Of King Sigmund's last Battle, and of how he must yield up his Sword again

Life events

  • Sigmund and Eylimi fall in battle, along with most of their people.(Chapter XI · Of King Sigmund's last Battle, and of how he must yield up his Sword again · 📍 Hunland)
    • With: Sigmund
    • “and in this fight fell Sigmund the King, and King Eylimi, his father-in-law, in the fore-front of their battle, and therewith the more part of their folk.”
  • Brynhild says Sigurd slew the sons of Hunding and avenged Sigmund and Eylimi.(Chapter XXV · Of the Dream of Gudrun, Giuki's daughter)
    • With: Sigurd Sigmund
    • “a youngling was he in the days when he slew the sons of Hunding, and revenged his father, and Eylimi, his mother's father.”

Chapter XI · Of King Sigmund's last Battle, and of how he must yield up his Sword again

  • child: Hjordis “So he spake to his daughter, and said-- ‘Thou art a wise woman, and I have spoken it, that thou alone shalt choose a husband for thyself; choose therefore between these two kings, and my rede shall be even as thine.’”
  • younger kin: Sigmund “But thereafter Sigmund went back home to Hunland, and King Eylimi, his father-in-law, with him, and King Sigmund betakes himself to the due ruling of his realm.”

Chapter XXV · Of the Dream of Gudrun, Giuki's daughter

  • younger kin: Sigurd “and Eylimi, his mother's father.”

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