Mortal
Atli’s Mother
An unnamed woman in the poem; Oddrun says she kept her from saving Gunnar.
Overview
Stanza 30 calls her only Atli’s mother and says she bites toward Gunnar’s heart after Oddrun arrives. Bellows’s note records divergent versions and even questions the reading of “Atli”; this record keeps only the unnamed figure and result within Oddrun’s lament.
Key facts
An unnamed figure
Stanza 30 calls her only Atli’s mother.
Competing versions
Bellows’s note says the Volsunga saga has a different account of the serpent-bed death.
Relationships
- Gunnarkeeps rescue from him
keeps rescue from him
Story appearances
- The Lament of Oddrun: The Journey and the Failed RescueFigure in the Lament of Oddrun
An unnamed woman in the poem; Oddrun says she kept her from saving Gunnar.
Ancient sources
MythWeave distinguishes ancient-source evidence from later adaptations and modern interpretation.