Jonakr's sons

According to the Edda and Völsunga saga, Hamdir and Sörli were the sons of Gjuki's daughter Guðrún and King Jonakr (O.N.

Guðrún then agitated her sons Hamdir and Sörli to avenge their half-sister, and tells them not to hurt the stones on the road.

When Sörli and Hamdir met Erpr en route, they did not understand his riddles and, thinking him arrogant, killed him.

Jordanes wrote in 551 that the Gothic king Ermanaric was upset with the attack of a subordinate king and had his wife Sunilda (i.e. Svanhildr) torn to pieces by horses and as revenge Ermanaric was pierced with spears by her brothers Ammius (Hamdir) and Sarus (Sörli) and died from the wounds.

The Annals of Quedlinburg (end of the 10th century) relates that the brothers Hemidus (Hamdir), Serila (Sörli), and Adaccar (Erpr/Odoacer) had cut off the hands of Ermanaric.