Gedvilė (Rimgailė’s granddaughter)¶

Summary¶

Gedvilė is Rimgailė’s granddaughter: eight years old in 1450, long-legged, with a scarred knee from climbing on boats. She keeps sweeping the stone where the kneeling woman stood. In the 1553 epilogue she is the mother of the narrator’s grandfather (born about 1459), so the line that keeps the silver wolf and the Kūčios litany runs through her.

Gedvilė (Rimgailė’s granddaughter)


Type	character
Years	c. 1442–?
Status	The saga’s invention
Note	Eight in 1450, long-legged, scarred knee from climbing on boats; keeps sweeping the stone; mother of the old man (b. c. 1459) of the 1553 epilogue (Book V ch. 29-30).

Record vs saga¶

[The saga’s invention]: All of it.

Appearances¶

Book V: ch. 29, 30.

Relations

Took part in: Žiežirba dies; cremated on the beach

Timeline¶

Year	Event	Book
1450-03	Žiežirba dies; cremated on the beach	V · The Wolf’s Legacy

Connections¶

graph LR
  ev_keeper_dies["Žiežirba dies; cremated on the beach"]
  gedvile["Gedvilė (Rimgailė's granddaughter)"]
  gedvile -->|Took part in| ev_keeper_dies
  style gedvile stroke-width:3px