Eyfura is a royal human figure in Norse folklore, from Scandinavia. Eyfura is a legendary Norse princess attested in Hervarar saga and in Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum; she marries the warrior Arngrim and is mother to twelve sons who are slain by the Swedish champion Hjalmar and his companion Orvar-Odd. Accounts vary on her parentage and the circumstances of her marriage, which serve dynastic and narrative functions in the sagas.
In the Hervarar saga (versions U and H) Eyfura is presented as the daughter of Svafrlami, king of Gardariki; in version R her father appears as Sigrlami who gives her to Arngrim in recompense for his services. In Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum she is recast as a Danish princess, daughter of King Frodi, whom Arngrim wins after military victories. Across these accounts her marriage to Arngrim and the fate of their twelve sons function as genealogical and narrative links within the saga cycles.
The cited sources do not provide a physical description of Eyfura; she is identified in social and genealogical terms (princess, daughter, wife, mother) without descriptive detail.
The sources attribute no supernatural powers or magical abilities to Eyfura. Her narrative agency is primarily dynastic: marriage to Arngrim and motherhood of twelve sons whose deaths motivate heroic action in the sagas. Variant accounts describe the marriage as taken by force after her father is slain, given as recompense, or granted after Arngrim’s victories.
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