to the Prose Edda, in Heimskringla and in Gesta Danorum. A hero named Svipdag is one of the companions of King Hrolfr Kraki. There is also a Swæbdæg...

Menglöð. Gastropnir is featured in Fjölsvinnsmál, as Svipdag conducts his mission to reach Menglöð. Svipdag walking up to the gate in the wall where he addresses...

and he had two sons, Alf and Agnar, who were of the same age as Ingjald. Svipdag the Blind was the viceroy of Tiundaland, the province of Uppsala where...

she could assist her son in a task set him by his cunning stepmother. Svipdag's mother, Gróa, has been identified as the same völva who chanted a piece...

champions Geigad and Svipdag.[citation needed] When the battle began, the jugglers and mimes panicked and fled, and only Geigad and Svipdag remained to defend...

by Cottle, A. S. Bristol: Joseph Cottle. 1797. pp. 265–286. "The Lay of Svipdag: The Lay of Fjolsvith". The Poetic Edda. Vol. 1. Translated by Hollander...

interpolation within Hyndluljóð. Svipdagsmál (The Ballad of Svipdag, The Lay of Svipdag) – This title, originally suggested by Bugge, actually covers...

had also gathered a large army and was supported by the two champions Svipdag and Geigad. On the Fyrisvellir (Fyris Wolds), south of Uppsala, there was...

Svipdag transformed by John Bauer shows Svipdagr being turned him into a dragon, after angering Odin, but despite his monstrous appearance, his lover...

hero Svipdag from the eddic poems Grougaldr and Fjölsvinsmál. Jacob Grimm and others have long identified Menglad ("the neck-lace lover"), Svipdag's love...

Henry Adams Bellows translation: Svipdag spake: "Now answer me, Fjolsvith, the question I ask, For now the truth would I know: What maidens are they that...

spells (a significant number in Norse mythology). In the second poem, Svipdag, having survived the rigours of the journey, is confronted by the eponymous...

Sinmora (here she is referred to as eir aurglasis or "the goddess of gold"). Svipdag in turn inquires what treasure it is that would so delight Sinmara (fǫlva...

Wormianus; the "Lay of Hyndla" from the Flatey-jarbók; and, the "Lay of Svipdag", which is only found in later, paper manuscripts (rather than vellum)...

flee from the battle in their ships. Ingjald was severely wounded and Svipdag the Blind and his sons Gautvid and Hylvid fell. Ingjald retreated and returned...

bad dreams, and so finds out that the god will soon die. In Grógaldr, Svipdag goes to the howe of his dead mother and wakes her, whereupon she describes...

Hugleik wasted his riches on actors and jugglers, but was defended by Svipdag (Suibdagus) and Geigad (Gegathus), who gave Starkad the most vicious wound...

warrior named Svipdag arrived to test his skills, she greatly supported him in his fights with the berserkers who eventually were all slain. Svipdag chose not...

Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 82-00-09479-0. Einar Ólafur Sveinsson, "Svipdag's Long Journey," Hereditas, Folklore of Ireland Society, Dublin, 1975. Orchard...

Ingjald was weaker and cried. Disgusted with his foster-son's weakness, Svipdag roasted Ingjald a wolf's heart and made him eat it, after which Ingjald...

Hvítserkr1 and Svipdag are also mentioned among the champions but only Svipdag as his brother. In Hrólfs saga kraka, Beigaðr is the brother of Svipdag and Hvítserkr1...

the origin of the work and advanced a novel interpretation of the hero Svipdag's journey to Menglöð's hall. Motz proposed that the poem described an initiatory...

Svebdeg or Svipdagerus The hero Svipdag shares many traits with Odin, and which connects him to Svipdagr4. See Svipdagr1. Svipdag is a champion. He first goes...

ordered by the king. Together with his brother Gautvid, and their father Svipdag, Hulvid fell in battle against Granmar of Södermanland and his ally Hjörvard2...