Alf

Overview

The prose before the final fight names Alf as Hrothmar’s son and says he sets the battle-place. Helgi receives a mortal wound there; the poem does not establish a revenge motive for Alf, so this record does not supply one or a later outcome.

Key facts

Relationships

• Helgi Hjorvarthssonsets the battle-place

  Alf sets the battle-place, and Helgi receives a mortal wound in the ensuing fight.

Story appearances

• The Lay of Helgi HjorvarthssonSource-scoped figure in this lay

  Hrothmar’s son, who fights Helgi at Frekastein.

Ancient sources

MythWeave distinguishes ancient-source evidence from later adaptations and modern interpretation.

• Anonymous, Poetic Edda, Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar, Bellows prose links and stanzas 1–43: Sigrlin, Helgi’s naming, Hrothmar, Hati and Hrimgerth, Svava, Hethin, Alf, and the final vows.