Svafrlami
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right|150px|thumb|Svafrlami and the Dwarves, by Jenny Nyström (1895). Svafrlami (Old Norse: ) was in the H and U version of the Hervarar saga the son of Sigrlami, who was the son of Odin. In the R version, Svafrlami is called Sigrlami and his parentage is not given. Svafrlami was the king of Gardariki and the first owner of the magic sword Tyrfing.
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right|150px|thumb|Svafrlami and the Dwarves, by Jenny Nyström (1895). Svafrlami (Old Norse: ) was in the H and U version of the Hervarar saga the son of Sigrlami, who was the son of Odin. In the R version, Svafrlami is called Sigrlami and his parentage is not given. Svafrlami was the king of Gardariki and the first owner of the magic sword Tyrfing.
One day, he was hunting on his horse and discovered two dwarves near a large stone. He bound them by swinging his sword above them so they could not disappear. The dwarves, who were named Dvalinn and Durin, asked if they could buy themselves free and undertook to make a magic sword. The sword would neither break nor rust and it would cut through iron and stone as easily as through cloth and would always give victory.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Svafrlami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.