Andvarinaut
Encyclopedia : A : AN : AND : Andvarinaut
| Volsung Cycle |
| Volsunga saga |
| Poetic Edda |
| Norna-Gests þáttr |
| Artifacts |
| Andvarinaut |
| Gram |
| Dwarves |
| Andvari |
| Hreidmar |
| Otr |
| Regin |
| Dragon |
| Fafnir |
| People |
| Volsung |
| Sigmund |
| Signy |
| Sinfjötli |
| Helgi Hundingsbane |
| Sigurd |
| Brynhild |
| Gudrun |
| Attila |
| Gunnar |
| Locations |
| Gautland |
| Hunaland |
| Related |
| Nibelungenlied |
| Hagbard and Signy |
The ring was acquired deceitfully from Andvari by Loki. In revenge, Andvari cursed the ring to bring destruction on its owner.
Loki disposed of it by immediately giving it to King Hreidmar of the dwarves (as a "reparation" since Loki and the other Æsir had killed his son, Otr, inadvertently). Hriedmar's son, Fafnir, then killed him and took the ring. Sigurd then killed Fafnir and gave it to Brünnehilde, who killed herself when he left her.
Some scholars have made speculative claims that Andvarinaut is the origin of the curse of the Hope diamond.
The ring is one of the central items in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (in English, The Ring of the Nibelung) and some consider it to have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, although Tolkien himself disputed this in strong terms.
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.