Iwaldi
(Scand.)
The dwarf whose sons fabricated for Odin the magic spear. One of the subterranean master‐ smiths who, together with other gnomes, contrived to make an enchanted sword for the great war‐god Cheru. This two‐edged‐sword figures in the legend of the Emperor Vitellius, who got it from the god, “to his own hurt”, according to the oracle of a “wise woman”, neglected it and was finally killed with it at the foot of the capitol, by a German soldier who had purloined the weapon. The “sword of the war‐god” has a long biography, since it also re‐appears in the half‐legendary biography of Attila. Having married against her will Ildikd, the beautiful daughter of the King of Burgundy whom he had slain, his bride gets the magic sword from a mysterious old woman, and with it kills the King of the Huns (TG).
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Shortly: The dwarf whose sons fabricated for Odin the magic spear. One of the subterranean master‐ smiths who...