Beaduhild (Böðvildr)

Beaduhild is attested across the Germanic Weland/Wayland story-cycle. In the Old English and Old Norse poetic and saga materials connected to Wayland the smith (e.g., Deor; Vǫlundarkviða) she is presented as the daughter of a king named Níðuðr/Niðhad/Niðung and figures as a tragic participant in the smith's captivity and revenge. Later Scandinavian narrative strands (notably the Þiðrekssaga and medieval ballads) rework her role so that she becomes Wayland's wife and the mother of a named heroic son, Viðga, thus integrating her into heroic lineage narratives.

The supplied sources provide no sustained physical description. Surviving poetic lines depict Beaduhild performing domestic care—bringing ale and bread to the maimed Weland—and looking away from his ruined limbs, but they do not record specific details of stature, facial features, costume, or other physical traits.

No supernatural abilities are attested in the supplied materials; Beaduhild is represented as a human princess whose narrative functions are social and familial. Her documented behaviors are caregiving (serving food and drink in a scene with the maimed smith), being a tragic victim in earlier tellings of Wayland's revenge, and in later traditions occupying the role of wife and mother (linking Wayland to subsequent heroic figures).