 In the poem "Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar", a prose narrative says that an unnamed and silent young man, the son of the Norwegian King Hjörvarðr and Sigrlinn of Sváfaland, witnesses nine valkyries riding by while sitting atop a burial mound.He finds one particularly striking; this valkyrie is detailed later in a prose narrative as Sváva, King Eylimi's daughter, who "often protected him in battles".The valkyrie speaks to the unnamed man, and gives him the name "Helgi" (meaning "the holy one").