Snaever

Overview

Snaever is named only at departure, when the poem calls him and Solar sons of Hogni. This record keeps his parentage and journey without supplying a battle, death, or later life.

Key facts

Relationships

• Hognifather of

  Snaever is called a son of Hogni.

Story appearances

• The Greenland Ballad of AtliSource-scoped figure in this poem

  Hogni’s son, a young warrior who travels when his father leaves.

Ancient sources

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

• Anonymous, Poetic Edda, Atlamol en Grönlenzku, Bellows stanzas 1–99: falsified runes, the warnings of Kostbera and Glaumvor, the trap at Atli’s home, the brothers’ deaths, and Hniflung and Guthrun killing Atli.