Of these names _Ívaldi_, _Allvaldi_, _Audvaldi_, and _Ölvaldi_ form a group by themselves, inasmuch as they all have the part, _valdi_, _valdr_, "mighty," an epithet preserved from the mythology in those heroic sagas which have treated distinct portions of the Ivalde-myth, where the hero reappears as Walther, Valthari, Valdere, Valtarius Manufortis.
Another group is formed by _Ölvaldi_, _Ölmodr_, _Svidir_, _Sumbl Finnakonungr_. _Svigdir_ means, as already shown, "the great drinker," and _Sumbl_ is a synonym of "ale," "mead." All the names in this group refer to the quality of their bearer as a person belonging to the myth about the mead.
The name _Sumbl Finnakonungr_ is at the same time connected with a third group of names--_Finnakonungr_, _Finnr_, _Vidfinnr_, _Finnálfr_, _Fin Folcvalding_. With this group the epithets _Vadi_ and _Vadill_ (in _Geirvadill_) have a real mythological connection, which shall be pointed out below.
Finally, _Geirvadill_ is connected with the epithet _Geirvandill_ from the fact that both belong to Ivalde on account of his place in the weapon-myth.
As has been shown above, Geirvandill means "the one occupied with the spear," or, more accurately, "the one who exhibits great care and skill in regard to the spear" (from _geir_, spear, and _vanda_, to apply care to something in order that it may serve its purpose). In Saxo, Gervandillus-Geirvandel is the father of Horvendillus-Orvandel; the spear-hero is the father of the archer. It is evident that the epithets of the son and father are parallel formations, and that as the one designates the foremost archer in mythology, the other must refer to a prominent spear-champion. It is of no slight importance to our knowledge of the Teutonic weapon-myth that the foremost representatives of the spear, the bow, and the sword among the heroes are grandfather, father, and son. Svipdag, Ivalde's grandson, the son of Orvandel-Egil, is above all others the sword-champion, "the sword-elf" (_sverdálfr_--see Olaf Trygv., 43, where Svipdag-Erik's namesake and supposed descendant, Erik, Jarl Hakonson, is called by this epithet). It is he who from the lower world fetches the best and most terrible sword, which was also probably regarded as the first of its kind in that age, as his uncle, who had made it, was called "the father of swords" (see Nos. 113, 114, 115). Svipdag's father is the most excellent archer whose memory still survives in the story about William Tell. The grandfather, Ivalde, must have been the most excellent marksman with the spear. The memory of this survives not only in the epithets, _Geirvandill_ and _Geirvadill_, but also in the heroic poem, "Valtarius Manufortis," written before the year 950 by Eckehard in St. Gallen, and in Vilkinasaga, which has preserved certain features of the Ivalde-myth.