Gripir

Role: king · First appears: Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 1

Life events

• Gripir foretells that Sigurd will avenge his father and Eylimi, and defeat Hunding’s sons.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 1)
  • With: Sigurd Eylimi Hunding
  • “First wilt thou, prince! avenge thy father, and for the wrongs of Eylimi wilt retaliate; thou wilt the cruel sons of Hunding boldly lay low; thou wilt have victory.”
• Gripir foretells that Sigurd will slay Fafnir and Regin.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 1 · 📍 Gnitaheid)
  • With: Sigurd Regin Fafnir
  • “Thou alone wilt slay that glistening serpent, which greedy lies on Gnitaheid; thou shalt of both the slayer be, Regin and Fafnir. Gripir tells truly.”
• Gripir foretells that Sigurd will take Fafnir’s riches and ride to Giuki.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 1)
  • With: Sigurd Fafnir
  • “Thou wilt find Fafnir's lair, and thence wilt take splendid riches, with gold wilt load Grani's back. Thou wilt to Giuki ride, the war-famed prince.”
• Gripir foretells that Sigurd will awaken a king’s daughter, who will teach him runes and healing.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 1)
  • With: Sigurd
  • “She to thee, powerful one! runes will teach, all those which men ought to know; and in every man's tongue to speak, and medicines for healing. May good await thee, king!”
• Gripir reveals that a certain day is decreed for Sigurd’s death.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 1)
  • With: Sigurd
  • “To Sigurd I will now openly tell, since the chieftain me thereto compels: thou wilt surely find that I lie not. A certain day is for thy death decreed.”
• Gripir foretells that after staying with Giuki, Sigurd will forget Brynhild.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 2)
  • With: Sigurd Brynhild Giuki
  • “Hast thou been Giuki's guest one night, thou wilt have forgotten the fair ward of Heimir.”
• Gripir foretells that Grimhild will beguile Sigurd and urge him to seek Brynhild for Gunnar.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 2)
  • With: Grimhild Sigurd Gudrun Brynhild Gunnar
  • “Thee will Grimhild wholly beguile; she will implore thee Brynhild to demand for the hand of Gunnar, king of Goths: the journey thou wilt forthwith promise to the king's mother.”
• Gripir foretells that Sigurd and Gunnar will exchange forms after swearing mutual oaths with Hogni.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 2)
  • With: Sigurd Gunnar Hogni
  • “All of you will swear mutual oaths, Gunnar, and Hogni, and thou the third; and ye will forms exchange, when on the way ye are, Gunnar and thou: Gripir lies not.”
• Gripir foretells that Sigurd, in Gunnar's semblance, will betroth Brynhild.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 2)
  • With: Sigurd Gunnar Brynhild
  • “Thou wilt have Gunnar's semblance, and his manners, thy own eloquence, and great sagacity: there thou wilt betroth the high-minded ward of Heimir: no one can that prevent.”
• Gripir foretells the solemnization of Sigurd's and Gunnar's nuptials, followed by their exchange of forms.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 2 · 📍 Giuki's halls)
  • With: Sigurd Gunnar Gudrun
  • “The nuptials will of both be solemnized, of Sigurd and of Gunnar, in Giuki's halls; then will ye forms exchange, when ye home return; yet to himself will have each his own senses.”
• Gripir foretells that Brynhild will devise schemes to avenge herself while Gudrun enjoys her union.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 2)
  • With: Brynhild Gunnar Sigurd Gudrun
  • “Thou wilt the oaths remember, and must silence keep, and let Gudrun enjoy a happy union. Brynhild nathless will herself think an ill-married woman. She will wiles devise to avenge herself.”
• Gripir foretells that Brynhild will accuse Sigurd of failing to keep his oaths.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 2)
  • With: Brynhild Sigurd
  • “She to Gunnar will plainly declare, that thou didst not well the oaths observe, when the noble king, Giuki's heir, with his whole soul, in thee confided.”
• Gripir foretells that Gudrun's brothers will resolve on Sigurd's death, to Gudrun's fury.(Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 2)
  • With: Gudrun Gunnar Guthorm Hogni Sigurd Grimhild
  • “Then will Gudrun be furious at heart, when her brothers shall on thy death resolve. In nothing then will that wise woman take delight. Such is Grimhild's work.”

Elder Edda · The First Lay of Sigurd Fafnicide, or Gripir's Prophecy · Part 1

• siblings with Hiordis “Gripir was the name of the son of Eylimi, the brother of Hiordis.”
• parent: Eylimi “Gripir was the name of the son of Eylimi, the brother of Hiordis.”
• younger kin: Sigurd “Tell me, if thou knowest, my mother's brother! how will Sigurd's life fall out?”

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