Editing Grimhild (section)

== ''Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra'' and ''Gríms saga loðinkinna'' ==
The name of Grímhild[r] was also given to another beautiful and evil sorceress who married king Áli of [[Alfheim]] (modern [[Bohuslän]]) in ''[[Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra]]''. She had seven daughters who too became terrible witches, while King Áli had a daughter before he married Grímhild, named Signý. Signý had a daughter with a king she had married but he died in battle, so she returned home to her father, with her daughter. Grímhild poisoned the king to have a younger man, and then had ruled the kingdom in such an evil manner that it was laid waste. She then banned Signý and Hild, her daughter, from the kingdom and put a curse on them, that Signy would turn into a [[troll]] woman named Grid and they would have to live in a cave. Every man that came would fall in love with Hild, and then Signý/Grid would have to kill them, until one man is not afraid. In turn, Hildr put a counter-curse on Grímhild, that she would stand over a fire between her legs, burning her from below while her upper parts would freeze, and into this fire Grímhild would drop once their own curse was broken. Grímhild attempted to reason with Hild, as she would rather that neither of their curses hold, but to no avail as Hildr desired revenge.<ref name="vuw" /> Eleven years and sixteen men later, a young Dane named Illugi broke Grímhild's curse by defeating and burning all of her daughters, thus also causing her to die in the fire at last.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.germanicmythology.com/FORNALDARSAGAS/IlugaGridafostraSagaChappell.html |title=Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda |publisher=Germanicmythology.com |date= |accessdate=2013-10-06}}</ref>

In ''[[Gríms saga loðinkinna]]'', Grímhild was an evil princess who became the wife of Harald, the North Norwegian lord of the [[Oslofjord|Oslofjjord]], and put a curse on her stepdaughter Lofthaena to turn her into an ugly troll. Lofthaena was rescued by a man who loved her, the saga's hero Grím, who than had Grímhild punished by having a sack put over head and being stoned to death.<ref name="vuw">{{cite web|url=http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10063/988/thesis.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10063/988/thesis.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Naomi Bennett : Peace Unwoven : Transgressive Women in Old Icelandic Heroic and Mythological Literature, and in Saxo Grammaticus' Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum |website=Researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz |accessdate=2016-05-11}} 
</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.northvegr.org/sagas%20annd%20epics/legendary%20heroic%20and%20imaginative%20sagas/old%20heithinn%20tales%20from%20the%20north/050.html |title=The Saga of Grim Shaggy-Cheek - Translated by Peter Tunstall |website=Northvegr.org |date= |accessdate=2016-05-11}}</ref>