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Thrall

The Thrall born after the first household episode in Rigsthula, who forms a home with Thir.

MythWeave AI-generated editorial illustration, Rigsthula batch

Overview

Thrall is named in the stanza where Edda bears a son. He grows into work, Thir comes to the house, and the two live together and have children. The poem stages this as the first branch’s origin; it does not authorize turning his appearance, labour, or children’s list into anyone’s fixed identity.

Key facts

Makes a home with Thir

Stanzas 10–13 bring Thir to Thrall’s home and list their children.

Limited to this surviving poem

This name is used only within the household account of the surviving Rigsthula passage; no biography beyond the poem is supplied.

Relationships

Eddamother
The damaged stanza 7 places Thrall’s birth with Edda.
Rigpoem-bound fathering
Nine months after Rig leaves, Edda bears Thrall.
Thirpartners
Thir comes to Thrall’s home; the two live together and have children.

Story appearances

Rigsthula: Three Households and Young KonFigure in Rig’s three households and the Young Kon fragment
The Thrall born after the first household episode in Rigsthula, who forms a home with Thir.

Ancient sources

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

Anonymous; translated by Henry Adams Bellows, The Poetic Edda: Rigsthula, Opening prose and stanzas 1–45: the three households, Rig’s recognition, and the surviving fragment before Young Kon.

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