Hreidmar’s Family Tree

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Family

• Fafnir(child),Otr(child),Regin(child)

  Hreidmar's three sons were Ótr, Fáfnir, and Regin. Loki killed Ótr in his otter form, and the cursed wergild gold drove Fáfnir to murder Hreidmar and become a dragon.

Slain by

• Fafnir

  Fáfnir murdered his father Hreidmar in the night to seize Andvari's cursed gold hoard. This patricide was the curse's first deadly work after the gods paid the gold as weregild for Ótr's death.

Associated with

• Andvaranaut

  Andvaranaut, the cursed ring of the dwarf Andvari, was paid to Hreidmar as part of the wergild for his son Otr's death, carrying a doom of greed and ruin.

• Loki

  Hreidmar captured Loki, Odin, and Hoenir after Loki killed his son Ótr, demanding they fill the otter skin with gold as wergild.