Misplaced Pages

Gram (mythology): Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 05:17, 1 August 2005 editGeeJo (talk | contribs)Administrators26,230 editsNo edit summary← Previous edit Revision as of 16:49, 21 August 2005 edit undo72.224.105.87 (talk) OOGA BOOGANext edit →
Line 1: Line 1:
]]]
{{Völsung}}In ], '''Gram''' was the name of the ] that ] (Siegfried) used to kill the ] ]. It was forged by ] The Smith and originally belonged to his father, ], who received it in the hall of the ] after pulling it out of a ] into which ] had stuck it—nobody else could pull it out. The sword was destroyed and reforged at least once. After it was reforged, it clove an anvil in half. See ] for more details on the story of Siegfried and Fafnir.

In the ], Siegfried's sword is called '''Balmung'''.

=== Appearances in popular culture ===
Balmung is also used as the name of a weapon in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, where it can be found in the Battle Arena through taking one of three trials. It is also the name of a character in the ] series. Gram is an artifact in Valkyrie Profile which is an equipable weapon for two-handed swordsmen. In ] Gram is one of Nightmare's (aka Siegfried) extra weapons.

{{Euro-myth-stub}}
]
]
]
]


]
]
]
]

Revision as of 16:49, 21 August 2005