According to Rydberg, Ullr is the son of Volund’s brother Egil and Sif, who is one of the swan-cloaked women who visits Egil and his brothers in the Wolfdales.
Rydberg: Ullr plays a significant role in Rydberg’s not-widely-accepted reconstruction of pre-conversion Germanic mythology. Davidson adds that Ullr places are also located near places named for Skaði ( Gods and Myths 106). According to de Vries, in Norway Ullr places are often located near places named for Freyr in Sweden many times they can be found near places named for Njorðr, Freyja (including by-names like Horn), and the Disir. Turville-Petre observes that Ullr place names can often be found near places named for the gods in general, such as Ullarfoss near Goðafoss and Ullarklettur near Goðaklettur in Our Troth Volume 1, the authors speculate that such pairings may show that “Ullr and all the gods” was done for reasons beyond alliteration. Variations on Ullinshof, Ullensaker, and Ulvangr are the most popular, but other places bear his name all over Sweden and parts of Norway, especially eastern Norway (though it should be kept in mind that since his name means something like “Glorious,” a place like Ullarvin could just as easily be “Glorious Meadow” as “Ullr’s Meadow”). Place names: According to Turville-Petre, Ullr may have more places named after him than any other god, and the distribution of Ullr place names in the north is comparable to the distribution of Tyr place names in the south ( Myth and Religion cited in Our Troth Vol.1 286).
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