Ottar

Also known as: Ottar Heimski · Role: prince · First appears: Elder Edda · The Lay of Hyndla

Life events

• Ottar and Angantyr contested for the dead’s gold.(Elder Edda · The Lay of Hyndla)
  • With: Angantyr
  • “They have contested for the dead's gold, Ottar the young and Angantyr.”
• Ottar raised an offering place with stones and sprinkled it with ox blood.(Elder Edda · The Lay of Hyndla)
  • “An offer-stead to me he raised, with stones constructed; now is that stone as glass become. With the blood of oxen he newly sprinkled it.”

Elder Edda · The Lay of Hyndla

• parent: Innstein “Thou, Ottar! art of Innstein born,”
• with Freyja (Lover/partner) “while thou thy man hast on the dead-road, the young Ottar, Innstein's son.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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