Atli

Atli [aht-lee] Examples noun Scandinavian Legend.

Attila, king of the Huns: represented in the Volsunga Saga as the brother of Brynhild and the second husband of Gudrun, whose brothers he killed in order to get the Nibelung treasure.

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The giantess is kept there by the gibes of Atli till the daybreak.

W. P. Ker

“I set little store by witchwork, goblins and their kin,” said Atli.

H. Rider Haggard

Now Atli the Good, earl of the Orkneys, comes into the story.

H. Rider Haggard

It is my rede that thou weddest Atli, or else thou goest hence.

H. Rider Haggard

Ay, Atli, and the new ship rides, where the old one founders.

H. Rider Haggard

British Dictionary definitions for atli Atli noun

Norse myth a king of the Huns who married Gudrun for her inheritance and was slain by her after he killed her brothers