#Final fantasy xiv dark knight series#
In the Castlevania series of video games, Gram is a one-handed sword ( Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow and Harmony of Despair), while Balmung is a two-handed great sword ( Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin).Ī powerful magical sword named Balmung appears in the real-time tactics video game Myth II: Soulblighter. The sword's origins are explained to the character by her friend Druth, including the story of Sigmund and Sigurd. The sword is featured in the 2017 video game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, where it is found and used in combat by the main character, Senua. He uses his ashplant walking stick to smash a chandelier and dispel the hallucination, crying out Nothung! as he does so. In Ulysses by James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus is confronted by a vision of his dead mother's corpse in a brothel. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for further suggestions. Please improve the article by adding more descriptive text and removing less pertinent examples. This article may contain indiscriminate, excessive, or irrelevant examples. Apart from this, the story of Regin and Sigurd is more or less identical to that of Mime and Siegfried. In Siegfried, the third of the four operas in the Ring des Nibelungen cycle, Mime, who essentially takes Regin's part, is unable to reforge Nothung (as Gram is called in the Ring). After this, the sword is no longer found in the manuscript. Eventually, Gram is used as a sign of chastity when it is placed between Sigurd and Brynhild on their funeral pyre after Brynhild arranged Sigurd's death before killing herself in turn. This deed is accomplished by Sigurd with a single, mighty thrust to the left shoulder where he drives the sword so deep he gets his arms bloodied up to the shoulder. Of the many feats done by Gram, by far the most well-known and important is the slaying of Fafnir the dragon. After testing the blade's sharpness, he uses it to avenge his father, Sigmund, slaying King Lyngvi. Throwing a piece of wool upstream, he lets it press against Gram, causing it to be sliced through. Once he tested the strength of the sword, he left the workshop and went to a nearby stream to check its edge. On his third attempt, Sigurd brings Regin the two halves of Gram, his father's sword, and when he strikes the anvil with Gram, it is cloven in two. On his second attempt, Regin makes him a sword superior to the last, but it also breaks. Regin confidently makes Sigurd an admirable sword, but when Sigurd sees it, he is disappointed and breaks it over the anvil. Sigurd agrees on one condition: that Regin makes him a mighty sword capable of slaying such a monster.
After a period of time, he tells Sigurd of the mighty dragon, Fafnir, and the treasure which it guards, asking Sigurd to slay it for him. Soon after the dwarven smith, Regin, comes and begins teaching Sigurd. Īfter Gram was broken by Odin, Hjördis took the two halves and kept them for her future son. Hjördis, Sigmund's wife, takes up the two halves of the blade and keeps them for Sigurd, their son. After Sigmund avenges his family, he uses the sword in several battles before it is eventually broken by Odin during Sigmund's final battle with King Lyngvi. After this, the sword disappears from the narrative until Signy secretly gives it back to Sigmund as he is buried alive with Sinfjotli. When he refuses, King Siggeir grows angry and secretly begins plotting to steal it from Sigmund, eventually killing his father and capturing him and all of his brothers. The sword is a fine sword, and King Siggeir is covetous of it, offering Sigmund three times its weight in gold.
All fail except Sigmund, who easily extracts it. He thrusts the sword into the Barnstokkr tree that grew in the middle of the hall and said, “The man to pull out this sword from the trunk shall receive it from me as a gift and he will find out for himself that he never bore in hand a better sword than this.” Soon after he departed every man made his attempt to pull the sword out of the wood. Although unknown to Sigmund, this is the god Odin. Part of the way through the feast a strange man appears carrying a sword. Sigmund receives it during the wedding feast for his sister, Signy. Gram is primarily seen in the Volsunga Saga used by men in the Volsung line after Sigmund. Sigurd proofs the sword Gram by Johannes Gehrts (1901)
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