Place
Volund's Island Workshop
The island workshop where Nithud confines Volund and makes him forge treasures.
Overview
Volund's island workshop is where Nithud isolates him and demands his smithing. It has no verifiable modern location, so the Atlas treats it only as a mythic, unlocatable setting.
Key facts
Site of confinement
The poem places Volund on an island in a lake, apart from Nithud's court.
Unlocatable
This record makes no claim to a modern mapped location.
Relationships
- Nithuduses as a prison
Nithud places Volund on an island in the lake and compels his smithing for the royal house.
Story appearances
- The Lay of VolundSite of captivity and revenge
The island is first Volund's prison-workshop, then also the place visited by victims from the royal household.
Ancient sources
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