The Lament of Oddrun: The Journey and the Failed Rescue

Chapters

1. 01

   Borgny’s Labour

   Borgny’s Labour

   BorgnyOddrun
2. 02

   Oddrun Reaches the Hall

   Oddrun Reaches the Hall

   OddrunBorgny
3. 03

   Vilmund’s Secret

   Vilmund’s Secret

   VilmundBorgny
4. 04

   Charms and Two Children

   Charms and Two Children

   OddrunBorgnyVilmund
5. 05

   Thanks Opens an Old Grief

   Thanks Opens an Old Grief

   BorgnyOddrun
6. 06

   Oddrun Loved Gunnar

   Oddrun Loved Gunnar

   OddrunGunnarAtli
7. 07

   Spying, Then the Brothers’ Fall

   Spying, Then the Brothers’ Fall

   AtliOddrunGunnarHogni
8. 08

   A Rescue Too Late

   A Rescue Too Late

   OddrunGunnarAtli’s Mother

Ancient sources

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• Anonymous; translated by Henry Adams Bellows, The Poetic Edda: Oddrunargratr, Introduction, opening prose, and stanzas 1–32: Borgny’s birth, Oddrun and Gunnar, rescue, and lament.