In Norse mythology, Sváfa or Sváva is a valkyrie and the daughter of king Eylimi. Consequently, she was probably the maternal aunt of Sigurd, the dragon...

Hundingsbana II, in the Poetic Edda. The original editor annotated that she was Sváfa reborn. The hero Helgi Hundingsbane first meets her when she leads a band...

Svafa Grönfeldt is an Icelandic business woman, author, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and former President of Reykjavík University...

fetch Sváfa so that they could meet before he died. Before passing away, Helgi asked Sváfa to marry his brother Heðinn. The brother asked Sváfa to kiss...

("Suebian warrior") on the Rö runestone and in the place name Svogerslev. Sváfa, whose name means "Suebian", was a Valkyrie who appears in the eddic poem...

lord's son Helgi would marry what was presumably Sigurd's aunt, the valkyrie Sváfa. According to Apollonius Rhodius, the figurehead of Jason's ship, the Argo...

slógu dvergar. Awaken, Angantyr! Hervor awakens you; your only daughter by Sváfa! Yield up from the mound the sharp sword that which dwarves forged for Svafrlami...

sequel to Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar whose heroes Helgi Hjörvarðsson and Sváfa are reborn as Helgi Hundingsbane and Sigrún. However, in Codex Regius, it...

Angantyr died during a duel against the Swedish hero Hjalmar. Her mother was Svafa, who was daughter of a Jarl Bjarmar. Rather than take on sewing or be raised...

Reginleif Róta Sanngriðr Sigrún Skalmöld Skeggöld (Skeggjöld) Skögul Skuld Sváfa Sveið Svipul Þögn Þrima Þrúðr Other Norse divinities and spirits Beyla Dís...