Key Terms

The text about the king who mediates

Hrólfs saga kraka

Legendery Saga

fornaldarsaga

The king that forces people to swear oaths and pay taxes

Fróði

Absolute Queen

Ólöf

Rapist

Helgi

Ysra’s new husband

Aðils

avaricious

ágjarn

Half Elven half woman daughter of Helgi

Skuld

half elven woman’s man

Hjörvarðr

woman who is a troll and wildly sexual being

Hvit

text about the swan wives

Vǫlundarkviða

man who is magical blacksmith

Vǫlundr

magical blacksmiths brothers

Egill and Slagfiðr

servants to Odin, guide brave soldiers to Odin’s hall

valkyries

the evil king in the swan story

Níðuðr

Daughter who gets impregnated by magic blacksmith

Bǫðvildr

Woman who sleeps with her twin brother

Signy

story with woman who sleeps with her twin brother

Vǫlsunga saga

man who kills by leaving people for the wolves

Siggeir

sorcerress

Völva

the result of incest

Sinfjötli

blank kills blank’s older brothers who are called blank

Atli kills Godrun’s older brothers who are called the Niblungs.

woman trampled by horses

Swanahild

evil man who tramples his wife

Jormunrek

the brothers that go to avenge their sister

Hamdir, Sorli, and Erp

Christian euhemeristic approach

Prose Edda

writer of Christian euhemeristic approach

Snorri

Fate of the Gods

Ragnarök

Lokis wolf son

Fenrir

Man who flings fire across the earth

Surt

the gods and humans that repopulate the earth

Vidar and Vali / Lif and Lifthrasir

Where Odin sacrificed his eye

Mímir

the saga where he watched her in the bath

Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu 

woman watched in the bath

Helga

Bath watcher

Gunnlager