Buðli or Budli is the name of one or two legendary kings from the Scandinavian legendary sagas.1
Ásmundar saga kappabana
According to the Ásmundar saga kappabana, Buðli was a Swedish king and the father of Hildr.23
The saga relates that Hildr married Helgi, the son of Hildebrand, the king of the Huns. Helgi and Hildr had a son who was raised by his paternal grandfather and named Hildebrand after him.1
Hildebrand became a great warrior and was called the Hunnish champion. When his father, Helgi, had fallen in a war, his maternal grandfather, the Swedish King Buðli, was killed by a Danish king by the name of Alf. This Alf took Hildrebrand's mother, Hildr, captive and gave her to the champion Aki with whom she had a son, Asmund, who is the protagonist of the saga.
Völsunga saga
In the Völsunga saga, Buðli was the father of Brynhildr (Brünnehilde).4
References
References
- Nagy, Michael S. (2018-01-02). "Ásmundar saga kappabana : Some Inconsistencies Explored". ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. 31 (1): 1–8. doi:10.1080/0895769X.2017.1354176. ISSN 0895-769X. S2CID 165384985.
- Ásmundarson, Valdimar (1886). Fornaldarsögur nordrlanda (in Icelandic). S. Kristjánsson.
- Rowe, Elizabeth Ashman (2013), "Fornaldarsögur and Heroic Legends of the Edda", Revisiting the Poetic Edda, Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203098608-16, ISBN 978-0-203-09860-8, retrieved 2023-05-20
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