SHOE.BLUE The Atlas The Field The Gnomon The Lamp The Lots The Work The Mirror

SHOE.BLUE
The Atlas
Objects
Myth & story
Gram

search the atlas

object

Gram

Objects · Myth & story

Sigurd’s named sword in the Völsung story, broken and reforged. Not Excalibur, not a metre-gram, and not every dragon-slaying blade.

Also known as Gramr

Norse tradition

Gram appears in Norse tradition.
The Poetic Edda’s Fáfnir poems name Gram as the sword that cuts the dragon. A named Volsung blade in that verse, not Excalibur and not Kusanagi.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
appears in · sourced · documented

sources

Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.