One day as Agnar and Geirröth, the young children of a mortal king, fished from a little boat, a wind drove them away from the coast and throughout the terrific sea. In the night their boat trashed on a weird coast, and a bad peasant couple welcomed them in. The female cared for ten-year-old Agnar, the beneficiary to the crown, while the male tended eight-year-old Geirröth and taught him wisdom.
The kids remained through the winter season with their kind hosts, never ever guessing that the old guy was Allfather Odin himself and the lady was his better half Frigga. In the spring the old male provided the boys a brand-new boat and sent them homeward
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Just before they left he offered secret directions to young Geirröth. A reasonable wind blew the young boys ‘boat house to their dad’s landing-place. No other person remained in sight. Geirröth got out of the boat first, and he pressed the boat and his sibling back out to sea, crying’Go where evil might have thee! ‘The boat drifted away. Geirröth, going ashore alone, was invited, and was likewise crowned, for his father had passed away
in the winter. Years afterward Odin gazed from his high seat that ignored all the worlds, and he chuckled, informing Frigga that her fosterling Agnar resided in a cave begetting children on a giantess while Odin’s fosterling Geirröth ruled his world. Frigga answered back that Geirröth was a parsimonious king who tortured his visitors if he thought there were a lot of them making needs on him. Odin denied this, and they made a wager.
Frigga, who knew that Geirröth was not generally a bad host, sent her maidservant Fulla to Geirröth’s hall to caution him of a dangerous enchanter who might be traveling in his instructions. The enchanter, she said, might constantly be acknowledged by the reality that dogs refused to leap at him.
When a blue-cloaked traveler who called himself Grimnir came to Geirröth’s gates and the pets didn’t threaten him, Geirröth purchased the guards to take, bind and question him. Grimnir declined to provide any information about himself aside from his name. Geirröth tried to break Grimnir’s silence by torture, setting him bound in between two blazing fires. For 8 days Grimnir remained there without food or drink, and the fires blazed so hot that the blue mantle burned on his back. Now Geirröth had a ten-year-old child whom he had actually called Agnar after the bro he betrayed. Agnar took pity on the suffering stranger and brought him a horn filled with
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At this Grimnir broke his silence. First he experienced his pain and ill-treatment, and applauded Agnar for his compassion. He spoke at length of the charms of the cities of the gods and of the shaping of the mortal world. At last he raised his face to the gods, called down his divine power, revealed himself as Allfather Odin, rebuked Geirröth’s folly and foretold Geirröth’s immediate death.
Hearing this, Geirröth was terrified. He increased with his sword in his hand. Possibly he only indicated to cut his detainee’s bonds. The sword twisted in his hand and he stumbled, fell on the blade and passed away. Because minute Odin vanished, and little Agnar ended up being king; and Agnar’s reign was long.