Groa (daughter of Sigtryg)

Also known as: Groa · Family: Swedes · Role: daughter of Sigtryg · First appears: Book One · Part 2

In Book One · Part 2, Gram heard that Groa, daughter of Sigtryg, was pledged to a giant and went to war in Sweden. In Book One · Part 3, Gram cast off his disguises and revealed his appearance; Groa became his bride. In Book One · Part 4, their son Guthorm (son of Gram) was sent to Sweden by ship with his foster-father.

Relationship record

Life events

• Groa was plighted to a giant.(Book One · Part 2)
  • “Gram, chancing to hear that Groa, daughter of Sigtryg, King of the Swedes, was plighted to a certain giant”
• Gram revealed his true appearance to Groa and won her as his bride.(Book One · Part 3)
  • With: Gram
  • “Thus speaking, he cast off his disguises, and revealed his natural comeliness; and by a single sight of him he filled the damsel with well-nigh as much joy as he had struck her with fear before at his counterfeit. She was even incited to his embraces by the splendour of his beauty; nor did he fail to offer her the gifts of love. Having won Groa”

Book One · Part 2

• admirer: Gram “Gram, chancing to hear that Groa, daughter of Sigtryg, King of the Swedes, was plighted to a certain giant, and holding accursed an union so unworthy of the blood royal, entered on a Swedish war; being destined to emulate the prowess of Hercules in resisting the attempts of monsters.”
• parent: Sigtryg “Gram, chancing to hear that Groa, daughter of Sigtryg, King of the Swedes, was plighted to a certain giant, and holding accursed an union so unworthy of the blood royal, entered on a Swedish war; being destined to emulate the prowess of Hercules in resisting the attempts of monsters.”

Book One · Part 3

• admirer: Gram “Thence take red-glowing gold, that the troth may be made firm by the gift, and that the faith to be brought to our wedlock may stand fast.”
• married with Gram “Thence take red-glowing gold, that the troth may be made firm by the gift, and that the faith to be brought to our wedlock may stand fast.”

Book One · Part 4

• child: Guthorm (son of Gram) “GUTHORM and HADDING, the son of Gram (Groa being the mother of the first and Signe of the second), were sent over to Sweden in a ship by their foster-father, Brage (Swipdag being now master of Denmark), and put in charge of the giants Wagnhofde and Hafle, for guard as well as rearing.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.