Sveigðir

Sveigir
Sveigir
Sveigir, Sveigder or Swegde (Old Norse "Waving One"[1]) was a Swedish king of the House of Yngling in Norse mythology. He was the son of Fjlner, whom he succeeded as king, and he married Vana of Vanaheimr, probably one of the Vanir. Lured by a dwarf, Sveigir disappeared into a stone and never came back. He was succeeded by his son Vanlandi.
Attestations
Snorri Sturluson wrote of Sveigir in his Ynglinga saga (1225):
Svegir tk rki eptir fur sinn; hann strengi ess heit at leita Goheims ok ins hins gamla. Hann fr me 12 menn va um heiminn, hann kom t Tyrkland ok Svj hina miklu ok hitti ar marga frndr sna ok vini, ok var eirri fr 5 vetr. kom hann aptr til Svjar, dvaldist hann enn heima um hr. Hann hafi fengit konu er Vana ht t Vanaheimi; var eirra son Vanlandi. Svegir fr enn at leita Goheims. Ok austanverri Svj heitir br mikill at Steini, ar er steinn sv mikill sem str hs. Um kveldit eptir slarfall, er Svegir gkk fr drykkju til svefnbrs, s hann til steinsins, at dvergr sat undir steininum. Svegir ok hans menn vru mjk druknir ok runnu til steinsins. Dvergrinn st durum ok kallai Sveigi, ba hann ar inn ganga, ef hann vildi in hitta. Svegir hljp steininn; en [2][3] steinninn laukst egar aptr, ok kom Svegir eigi aptr. Swegde took the kingdom after his father, and he made a solemn vow to seek Godheim and Odin. He went with twelve men through the world, and came to Turkland, and the Great Svithiod, where he found many of his connections. He was five years on this journey; and when he returned home to Sweden he remained there for some time. He had got a wife in Vanheim, who was called Vana, and their son was Vanlande. Swegde went out afterwards to seek again for Godheim, and came to a mansion on the east side of Swithiod called Stein, where there was a stone as big as a large house. In the evening after sunset, as Swegde was going from the drinking-table to his sleeping-room, he cast his eye upon the stone, and saw that a dwarf was sitting under it. Swegde and his man were very drunk, and they ran towards the stone. The dwarf stood in the door, and called to Swegde, and told him to come in, and he should see Odin. Swegde ran into the stone, which instantly closed behind him, and Swegde [4][5] never came back.
Snorri also quoted some lines from Ynglingatal composed in the 9th century:
En dagskjarr Drnis nija salvrur Sveigi vtti, er stein enn strgei Dusla konr ept dvergi hljp, ok salr bjartr eira Skmmis jtunbyggr vi jfri gein. By Diurnir's elfin race, Who haunt the cliffs and shun day's face, The valiant Swegde was deceived, The elf's false words the king believed. The dauntless hero rushing on, Passed through the yawning mouth of stone: It yawned it shut the hero fell, In Saekmime's hall, where giants dwell. [6]
The Historia Norwegi presents a Latin summary of Ynglingatal written in the late 12th century and consequently older than Snorri's quotation:
Froyr vero genuit Fiolni, qui in dolio medonis dimersus est, cujus filius Swegthir nanum in petram persequitur nec redisse dicitur, [7] quod pro certo fabulosum creditur. Iste genuit Wanlanda [...] Fry engendered Fjolne, who was drowned in a tun of mead. His son, Sveigde, is supposed to have pursuded a dwarf into a stone and never to have returned, but this is plainly to be taken as a fairy-tale. He sired Vanlande, [8] [...]
The even earlier source slendingabk from the early 12th century, cites the line of descent in Ynglingatal and also gives Svegir as the successor of Fjlnir and the predecessor of Vanlandi: iiii Fjlnir. s er d at Frifra. v Svegir. vi Vanlandi.[9]
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Notes
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] McKinnell (2005:70). Ynglinga saga at Norrne Tekster og Kvad (http:/ / www. heimskringla. no/ original/ heimskringla/ ynglingasaga. php) A second online presentation of Ynglingatal (http:/ / www. home. no/ norron-mytologi/ sgndok/ kvad/ yngli. htm) Laing's translation at the Internet Sacred Text Archive (http:/ / www. sacred-texts. com/ neu/ heim/ 02ynglga. htm) Laing's translation at Northvegr (http:/ / www. northvegr. org/ lore/ heim/ 001_03. php) Laing's translation at Northvegr (http:/ / www. northvegr. org/ lore/ heim/ 001_05. php) Storm, Gustav (editor) (1880). Monumenta historica Norwegi: Latinske kildeskrifter til Norges historie i middelalderen, Monumenta Historica Norwegiae (Kristiania: Brgger), pp. 97-98 [8] Ekrem, Inger (editor), Lars Boje Mortensen (editor) and Peter Fisher (translator) (2003). Historia Norwegie. Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 8772898135, p. 75. [9] Guni Jnsson's edition of slendingabk (http:/ / www. heimskringla. no/ original/ islendingesagaene/ islendingabok. php)
References
McKinnell, John (2005). Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend. DS Brewer. ISBN 1-84384-042-1
Sources
Ynglingatal Ynglinga saga (part of the Heimskringla) Historia Norwegiae
Sveigir House of Yngling Precededby Mythological king of Sweden Succeededby Fjlnir Vanlandi
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