swanmaid

Updated: January 7, 2026

The common swanmaid motive occurs in two, the Völund story and the legend of Helgi and Kara; while the first Helgi tale suggests the Levirate in the proposed marriage of Svava to her husband's brother.

L. Winifred Faraday - The Edda, Volume 2: The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology,: Romance, and Folklore, No. 13