Leif was the king of the Völsung clan and a prominent character in Twilight of the Gods. A warrior king, he was saved on the battlefield by Sigrid, with whom he fell in love. After being terrorized by Thor on their wedding night, they set off to take revenge. He was voiced by Stuart Martin.
Biography[]
Sigrid steps in to save Leif.
While leading his warriors into battle, an enemy got the better of Prince Leif, knocking him to the ground. Sigrid arrived in time to defeat the enemy and prevent further harm from coming to him. This was how Leif and Sigrid met and fell in love, later to be married.
Leif visits his father's grave.
Leif's father didn't approve but eventually died. His sword was used as a grave marker where Leif would visit him. As the years passed, Leif returned for his father's blessing to marry Sigrid, telling him to release his sword if he approved. He struggled to remove the sword, eventually loosing it and taking it up as a marriage gift for Sigrid.
Sigrid and Leif's wedding.
Leif managed to win over Sigrid's father, Glaumar, and they prepared a beautiful wedding ceremony in Jötunheim. Before they could finish their vows, Thor Odinson arrived looking for his betrayer, Loki Laufeyson. Tensions rose between the giants of the Open Hand and Thor, leading to Thor's annihilation of the entire village, leaving Leif and Sigrid for dead. Her wedding day sullied with such a tragedy, Sigrid would stop at nothing to avenge her family and kill Thor.[1]
Sigrid takes up Antler.
Leif helped Sigrid recruit a team of warriors to take revenge on Thor, and they went to Nidavellir to gain god-killing weapons from Andvari. Despite Andvari's warning, Leif took up a cursed battleaxe and sealed his fate without hesitation.[2]
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Powers and abilities[]
Combat prowess: Leif is a skilled fighter with most weapons, especially his cursed axe. He's able to fight hordes of Aesir soldiers, and even keep up with Thor and Fafnir.
Appearances[]
Norse origins[]
As a member of Clan Völsung, Leif is based on the legendary clan from Norse mythology. Their namesake came from their ancestor, Völsung, who was a grandson of Odin. Völsung, as Leif hoped to do, married the daughter of a jötun.
Gorm's sword
Leif pulls his father's sword from his father's grave when he wishes to give it to Sigrid as a wedding gift and struggles with it, interacting with it as though his father, Gorm, is holding it back. Sigmund, a son of Völsung, similarly loosed a sword called Gram after Odin stuck it into a tree. It could only be pulled out by the one for whom it was meant, so the others who tried all failed. Sigmund used the sword until it was broken by Odin, and then it was later repaired for his son, Sigurð, who used it to kill Fáfnir. Gram was said to be "decked with gold and gleaming bright," like Leif's sword. While many of the story details are altered to fit the plot of Twilight of the Gods, the story of Leif's sword shares these notable similarities to that of Gram, as he similarly used it to kill Fafnir. Gram was later placed on Sigurð's funeral pyre, never to be seen again.
References[]
- ↑ Eric Carrasco (writer) & Zack Snyder (director). September 19, 2024. Twilight of the Gods episode 1, "The Bride-Price."
- ↑ Caitlin Parrish (writer) & Jay Oliva (director). September 19, 2024. Twilight of the Gods episode 2, "Heretic Spear."