Hreidmar

Role: father of Regin, Fafnir, and Otter · First appears: Chapter XIII · Of the Birth and Waxing of Sigurd Fafnir's-bane

In Chapter XIV, Odin, Loki and Hoenir came to Hreidmar’s house in the evening. He seized them and demanded that they fill the otter skin with gold and cover it with red gold as ransom. Thereafter, Fafnir slew his father and took the treasure, leaving Regin none of it.

In Chapter XIII, Regin is named as Hreidmar’s son. In Chapter XIV, Regin recounts that Fafnir was his eldest brother, Otter his second, and he the third: “Hreidmar was my father's name, a mighty man and a wealthy”.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hreidmar seized the gods and demanded the otter skin filled and covered with gold as ransom.(Chapter XIV · Regin's tale of his Brothers, and of the Gold called Andvari's Hoard · 📍 Hreidmar's house)
  • With: Odin Loki Hoenir
  • “and in the evening they came to Hreidmar's house, and showed him what they had taken: thereon he laid hands on them, and doomed them to such ransom, as that they should fill the otter skin with gold, and cover it over without with red gold;”
• Fafnir slew his father and took the treasure, leaving Regin none of it.(Chapter XIV · Regin's tale of his Brothers, and of the Gold called Andvari's Hoard)
  • With: Fafnir
  • “Fafnir slew his father and murdered him, nor got I aught of the treasure,”

Chapter XIII · Of the Birth and Waxing of Sigurd Fafnir's-bane

• child: Regin “Now Sigurd's foster-father was hight Regin, the son of Hreidmar;”

Chapter XIV · Regin's tale of his Brothers, and of the Gold called Andvari's Hoard

• child: Fafnir “Hreidmar was my father's name, a mighty man and a wealthy: and his first son was named Fafnir, his second Otter, and I was the third”
• child: Otter “Hreidmar was my father's name, a mighty man and a wealthy: and his first son was named Fafnir, his second Otter, and I was the third”
• child: Regin “Hreidmar was my father's name, a mighty man and a wealthy: and his first son was named Fafnir, his second Otter, and I was the third”
• enemies with Fafnir “Fafnir slew his father and murdered him”
• with Odin (interaction) “thereon he laid hands on them, and doomed them to such ransom, as that they should fill the otter skin with gold”
• with Loki (interaction) “thereon he laid hands on them, and doomed them to such ransom, as that they should fill the otter skin with gold”
• with Hoenir (interaction) “thereon he laid hands on them, and doomed them to such ransom, as that they should fill the otter skin with gold”

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