Ebb
Ebb is attested in the Gesta Danorum across Books Seven and Eight, where he appears in several distinct episodes.
Ebb is attested in the Gesta Danorum across Books Seven and Eight, where he appears in several distinct episodes. In Book Seven, Sigrid wandered to the abode of Ebb after fleeing in distress, where she pretended to be a daughter of paupers (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), Book Seven). In Book Eight, Gotar, King of the Swedes, entrusted Ebb, identified as the son of Sibb, with the mission of asking for one of Omund's daughters in marriage on his behalf (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), Book Eight).
Ebb proved resourceful in danger: he survived an assassination attempt involving a heavy machine and punished his attackers with death (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), Book Eight). He also appears alongside Agg as a son of Gambaruk, and the two brothers brought their mother news of an infamous decree whose authors had found safety in crime (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), Book Eight).
All four citations come from the Gesta Danorum, but they present Ebb in two different narrative registers. The Book Seven episode places him as a passive figure -- someone whose abode Sigrid stumbles upon by chance during her wandering (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), Book Seven). The Book Eight episodes, by contrast, present an active and capable figure: a trusted emissary, a survivor of treachery, and a son who reports political events to his mother Ebbe (Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), Book Eight). Whether the Ebb of Book Seven and the Ebb of Book Eight are the same individual is not explicitly resolved by the text.
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX), Norse Tradition
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