Hialli

Family: Budlungs · Role: thrall · First appears: Elder Edda · The Groenland Lay of Atli · Part 2

Life events

• Hialli's heart is cut out and brought to Gunnar.(Elder Edda · The Lay of Atli · Part 1)
  • With: Gunnar
  • “They the heart cut out from Hialli's breast; on a dish bleeding laid it, and it to Gunnar bare.”
• Beiti proposes taking Hialli instead of Hogni for the execution.(Elder Edda · The Groenland Lay of Atli · Part 2)
  • With: Beiti Hogni
  • “Beiti spake,--he was Atli's steward--Take we Hialli, but Hogni let us save.”
• Hogni offers to take Hialli's place to spare him from the execution.(Elder Edda · The Groenland Lay of Atli · Part 2)
  • With: Hogni
  • “Less 'tis, I say, for me to play this game myself. Why shall we here desire to listen to that screaming?”

Elder Edda · The Groenland Lay of Atli · Part 2

• employer: Budli “Budli's cook they took, and the knife brought towards him.”
• 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.”

Also listed in Budlungs — Minor Figures

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