Erp

Overview

Erp is named beside Eitil only in stanza 40, when Guthrun makes Atli understand he will not see his two sons again. Opening prose and stanza 39 make the brutal result clearer, but do not supply age or independent action for either boy.

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

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

• 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.