Svanhild
Norse · scion · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
Daughter of Sigurd and Gudrún. Her death — trampled by horses on the false charge of adultery with the Gothic king Jǫrmunrekkr's son — provokes her half-brothers Hamðir and Sǫrli to the doomed final revenge that closes the Vǫlsung-Niflung cycle. A rare case with a historical kernel: Jordanes records the Gothic queen Sunilda torn apart by horses under Ermanaric.
Parentage
- father: SigurdDaughter of Sigurd and Gudrún.Vǫlsunga saga ch. 32 (primary)
Powers
- is the fairest of all women, her beauty the spark of the final feud
Relations
- father: SigurdDaughter of Sigurd and Gudrún.Vǫlsunga saga ch. 32 (primary)
- sibling: ÁslaugHalf-sister of Áslaug, both daughters of Sigurd.Vǫlsunga saga ch. 29, 32 (primary)
- half sibling: HamðirReciprocal of norse_hamdir.half-sibling (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
- spouse: JǫrmunrekkrReciprocal of norse_jormunrekkr.spouse (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
- half sibling: SǫrliReciprocal of norse_sorli.half-sibling (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
Sources
- existence: Hamðismál; Guðrúnarhvǫt (Poetic Edda) (primary); Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál (primary); Jordanes, Getica 24 (the Gothic Sunilda, historical kernel) (secondary)