Svaknir

Svaknir was an ancient Nord bard who lived during the reign of King Olaf One-Eye. Svaknir is credited with writing and performing a particularly damning piece of work challanging King Olaf's character and the events surrounding his capture of the dragon Numinex, as chronicled in Olaf and the Dragon. Olaf's Verse, as it was entitled, so enraged the High King that he ordered the destruction of all copies of the verse and had Svaknir imprisioned.

Giraud Gemane, of the Solitude Bards College, recently discovered that there is one surviving copy of Olaf's Verse buried along side Svaknir himself in Dead Man's Respite. So hated was he by King Olaf that Svaknir was entombed along side the King for all enternity.

Svaknir's Ghost can still be found haunting the tomb and becomes a key ally in the quest to retrieve the lost verse.

Svaknir can be seen wandering the mists along the way to the Hall of Valor during the quest Sovngarde if you retrieved the verse before doing the quest.

Quests

 * Tending the Flames

Appearances

 * The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim