Kostbera is the wife of the mythical Norse hero Hogni. She appears exclusively in

Atlamál ''Atlamál in grǿnlenzku'' ('The Greenlandic Lay of Atli') is one of the heroic poems of the ''Poetic Edda''. It relates the same basic story as '' Atlakviða'' at greater length and in a different style. The poem is believed to have been compo ...

and the

Völsunga saga The ''Völsunga saga'' (often referred to in English as the ''Volsunga Saga'' or ''Saga of the Völsungs'') is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century prose rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the story ...

, and is believed to be an invention of the poem's author. Kostbera and Hogni are presented in contrast to two other married couples in the poem: Glaumvor and Gunnar, and Gudrun and Vingi. With Hogni, she is a parent to four sons: Solar, Snævar, Hniflung and Gjuki. Gjuki is only mentioned in Drap Niflunga.

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