Eitil

Overview

Eitil is named beside Erp in stanza 40. Guthrun’s words make Atli learn at the feast that he has lost his sons and carry revenge for her brothers to its final step; the lay gives him no individual biography.

Relationships

• Gudrunkills her son

  kills her son

Story appearances

• The Lay of Atli: Ring, Serpents, and RevengeFigure in the Lay of Atli

  A son of Guthrun and Atli; Guthrun reveals at the revenge feast that he has been killed.

Ancient sources

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• Anonymous; translated by Henry Adams Bellows, The Poetic Edda: Atlakvitha en Grönlenzka, Opening prose and stanzas 1–46: invitation, warning, the brothers’ deaths, and Guthrun’s revenge.