Gjúki and Grímhild ruled the Burgundian court and raised four children — Gunnar, Högni, Gudrún, and Guttormr — whose entanglement with Sigurd and the cursed hoard of Fáfnir brought ruin upon the entire dynasty.
Grímhild brewed potions of forgetfulness that twice reshaped Gudrún's fate — the first erased Gudrún's knowledge of Sigurd's betrothal to Brynhild, binding her to a doomed marriage, and the second dulled her grief after Sigurd's death, compelling her into marriage with Atli.
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