The Poetic Edda on Bikki
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attestation: Bikki, one of Jormunrek's followers, suggests that Svanhild is unduly intimate with Jormunrek's son Randver, leading to Randver's hanging and Svanhild's death by horses
"Bikki: Svanhild is married to the aged Jormunrek (Ermanarich), but Bikki, one of his followers, suggests that she is unduly intimate with Jormunrek's son, Randver. Thereupon Jormunrek has Randver hanged, and Svanhild torn to pieces by wild horses."
attestation: Bikki is the Sifka or Sibicho of the Gothic legends of Ermanarich, whose evil counsel always brings trouble
"Bikki: the Sifka or Sibicho of the Gothic legends of Ermanarich, whose evil counsel always brings trouble."
attestation: Bikki told Randver it would be right for him to have Svanhild rather than the old man Jormunrek, making the story akin to Tristan and Iseult
"On the voyage home Bikki says to Randver: "It were right for you to have so fair a wife, and not such an old man.""