Beadohild

Daughter of King Nithhad. Wayland, taking revenge on her father, ravished her; she bore the hero Widia. The Old English Deor names her sorrow at her pregnancy as one of the griefs that, like all others, passed away.

Parentage

• Nithhad

Children

• Widia

Domains

• endurance of sorrow
• motherhood of the hero

Sources

• Deor ll. 8-13; Völundarkviða st. 35-41 — Beadohild, daughter of Nithhad, bore Widia to Wayland