Borgny

Borgny was the daughter of king Heithrek. She had a lover named Vilmund, but she couldn't gave birth to a child, till Oddrun, daughter of Budli came to her and chanted her magic charms.
Borgny gave birth to a aon and a daughter.
It seems that Oddrun knew Borgny from her past, in the time when she had an affair with Gunnar, brother of Guthrun.

She lived in Mornaland ("Morningland", maybe the Hunland, or "Morva land" = "Moravia").

The Oddrúnargrátr was also called "Of Borgny and Oddrun".

 

Poetic Edda: Oddrúnarkviða (Oddrúnargrátr)

 

Old Norse: Borgný
Meaning: "Help", "New"

 

 

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