Böðvildr

Böðvildr, Beadohilde, Bodil or Badhild was the princess of an evil king Níðuðr/Niðhad/Niðung who appears in Germanic legends, such as Deor, Völundarkviða and Þiðrekssaga. Initially, she appears to have been a tragic victim of Wayland the smith's revenge on her father, but in later Scandinavian versions, she had a happy ending as Wayland's wife and as the mother of the hero Viðga of the Þiðrekssaga and medieval Scandinavian ballads.

Although preceded by the Ardre image stone, the oldest surviving textual source on her is the 10th century Anglo-Saxon poem Deor. It deals with the fact that Wayland has just murdered her brothers and raped her. It is suggested by the poet that things will turn out bad for her:

Welund him be wurman / wræces cunnade,
anhydig eorl / earfoþa dreag,
hæfde him to gesiþþe / sorge ond longaþ,
wintercealde wræce; / wean oft onfond,
siþþan hine Niðhad / on nede legde,
swoncre seonobende / on syllan monn.
Þæs ofereode, / þisses swa mæg!
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Beadohilde ne wæs / hyre broþra deaþ
on sefan swa sar / swa hyre sylfre þing,
þæt heo gearolice / ongieten hæfde
þæt heo eacen wæs; / æfre ne meahte
þriste geþencan, / hu ymb þæt sceolde.
Þæs ofereode, / þisses swa mæg!

Welund tasted misery among snakes.
The stout-hearted hero endured troubles
had sorrow and longing as his companions
cruelty cold as winter - he often found woe
Once Nithad laid restraints on him,
supple sinew-bonds on the better man.
That went by; so can this.
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To Beadohilde, her brothers' death was not
so painful to her heart as her own problem
which she had readily perceived
that she was pregnant; nor could she ever
foresee without fear how things would turn out.
That went by, so can this.

In Völundarkviða, she appears when her father Níðuðr has captured Wayland, and she receives from her father a gold ring that the smith had made for his lost Valkyrie lover. Wayland is hamstrung and put to work in her father's smithy.

Wayland has revenge by murdering her brothers and hiding them in the smithy. He then set their skulls in silver and sent them to the king together with jewelry for the queen made by the boys' eyes. For Böðvildr he made a brooch of the boys' teeth.

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