Sigurd agrees on one condition: that Regin makes him a mighty sword capable of slaying such a monster. After a period of time, he tells Sigurd of the mighty dragon, Fafnir, and the treasure which it guards, asking Sigurd to slay it for him. Soon after the dwarven smith, Regin, comes and begins teaching Sigurd. Īfter Gram was broken by Odin, Hjördis took the two halves and kept them for her future son. Hjördis, Sigmund's wife, takes up the two halves of the blade and keeps them for Sigurd, their son. After Sigmund avenges his family, he uses the sword in several battles before it is eventually broken by Odin during Sigmund's final battle with King Lyngvi.
After this, the sword disappears from the narrative until Signy secretly gives it back to Sigmund as he is buried alive with Sinfjotli. When he refuses, King Siggeir grows angry and secretly begins plotting to steal it from Sigmund, eventually killing his father and capturing him and all of his brothers. The sword is a fine sword, and King Siggeir is covetous of it, offering Sigmund three times its weight in gold. All fail except Sigmund, who easily extracts it. He thrusts the sword into the Barnstokkr tree that grew in the middle of the hall and said, “The man to pull out this sword from the trunk shall receive it from me as a gift and he will find out for himself that he never bore in hand a better sword than this.” Soon after he departed every man made his attempt to pull the sword out of the wood. Although unknown to Sigmund, this is the god Odin. Part of the way through the feast a strange man appears carrying a sword. Sigmund receives it during the wedding feast for his sister, Signy. Gram is primarily seen in the Volsunga Saga used by men in the Volsung line after Sigmund. Sigurd proofs the sword Gram by Johannes Gehrts (1901)
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