You are most welcome, friend, to Ydalir! I am called Amleth the Waetling. I apologize if I leave suddenly, but my wanderlust cannot be quenched. You can most likely find me, anyway, making trouble at Widsith's Meodoheall.

My father Earendel was eldest of the three sons of Wate, the sea-aelf. My mother Gerutha was the daughter of Sitric the Great. The Waetlings have long been the chief family of Ydalir, in Jutland, having only a few skirmishes with Woden of Esageard and the Scyldings.

My brother Wulder has become Eorl of Ydalir while I adventure through Middengeard and beyond, and he rules the people of Ydalir from our family's fortress.

My adventures have taken me down the road to Heorot, as a companion of Hildibrands, seneschal of the House of Bern. Our quest: to find the lost heir of the Gothic kingdom, Thidrek son of Thetmar.

I am known as Hodur to the Esa (or Aesir, as one might say), but my name at birth was Swaefdaeg (Svipdag). My brother Wulder still affectionately refers to me as Swaef.

My genealogy can be found here.

Visit my Celtic alter ego, Amlaidh Niafer.

This badge was a gift from the All-Father, Odin Knudsson.

Þann gel eg þér inn sjöunda, ef þig sækja kemur frost á fjalli háu, hræva kuldi megit þínu holdi fara, ok haldist æ lík að liðum. --My mother Gerutha's incantation of protection against Frost.