The Legend
Gram is the greatest sword in the legend of the Völsungs. Its story begins when a mysterious one-eyed stranger, Odin in disguise, drives a blade into the great tree Barnstokkr and declares that whoever can draw it will own it. Only Sigmund, of the Völsung line, can pull it free.
Years later Odin shatters the sword in battle, and Sigmund dies, but the broken shards are kept for his unborn son. When that son, Sigurd, comes of age, the smith Regin reforges the pieces into Gram. The reforged blade is so keen it can split an anvil down the middle and cut a lock of wool drifting on running water.
With Gram, Sigurd slays the dragon Fáfnir from a pit dug in its path, and later kills the treacherous Regin. The sword makes him the greatest of the Norse dragon-slayers, a hero remembered across the Germanic world.
Powers and Abilities
Cleaves the Anvil
So strong that Sigurd splits Regin's anvil in two when he tests the reforged blade
Impossibly Sharp
Slices through a tuft of wool carried against its edge by the current of a river
Quick Facts
The Blade's Journey
Drawn from the Tree
Odin sets it in the Barnstokkr, and only Sigmund can pull it free
Broken and Reforged
Shattered by Odin's spear, then remade for Sigurd from its shards
The Dragon's Bane
Driven up into Fáfnir's heart from the trench in its path
In the Saga
Carried by Sigurd
Borne by the hero through the tragedy of the Völsungs and the Nibelungs