Bikki

Overview

Bikki is named only in opening prose. The note says neither poem’s verse names him and infers that he reports an accusation of adultery; this node keeps the act and uncertainty without convicting him.

Relationships

• Randvercounsels the match

  counsels the match

• Jormunrekreports to the king

  reports to the king

Story appearances

• Guthrun’s Inciting: A Daughter’s Death and Final LamentFigure in Guthrunarhvot

  A follower of Jormunrek; prose says he counsels that Randver should have Svanhild and reports to the king.

Ancient sources

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

• Anonymous; translated by Henry Adams Bellows, The Poetic Edda: Guthrunarhvot, Introduction, opening prose, and stanzas 1–22: Svanhild’s death, incitement to revenge, and Guthrun’s lament.