Solar

Overview

Solar appears with Snaever in the departure list, and both are called sons of Hogni. The witness gives him no separate speech or clear fate, so later tragedy is not transplanted onto him.

Key facts

Relationships

• Hognifather of

  Solar 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.