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* ChasteSeparatingSword: Gorm and Thyra get married. Thyra requests [[LetsWaitAwhile three days of chastity before the marriage is consummated]]. Gorm agrees. To show that he's on board and committed, he lays his drawn sword between them in bed.
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* EroticDream: SubvertedTrope. While [[LetsWaitAWhile not consuming his relationship with his new wife]], Gorm has a dream about his wife's ''genitali parte'', and it really sounds horny... until two birds emerge from body, symbols of their future sons Kanute and Harald.
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* LetsWaitAwhile: Gorm and Thyra are married. Thyra requests three days of chastity before the marriage is consummated, waiting for some omen that their union would be prosperous. Gorm respects this.
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* TemptingApple: On their way to Geirrodsgard, King Gorm and Thorkill are hosted by the giant Guthmundus. Thorkill however knows that any mortal who eats the food offered by Guthmund or who has intercourse with a woman of Guthmund's realm [[FoodChains will lose his mind and can never leave Guthmund's realm again.]] After Guthmund has tried to trap them twice by inviting them to a feast, then by offering them his maidservants as concubines, he leads them to his garden and asks Gorm to try the fruits growing there. When he is foiled again by Gorm evading to accept the offer, Guthmund gives up and allows them to continue their voyage.
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As a source on Myth/NorseMythology, ''Gesta Danorum'' has been in the shadow of the Icelandic Literature/{{Edda}}s and Sagas since the 19th century, although before it, the opposite was the case. Thanks to its use of Latin rather than Old Norse, ''Gesta Danorum'' appealed to Renaissance scholars and was first printed in Paris in 1514, which is why the story of Amleth could find its way to Elizabethan England to serve as the basis of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's play ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.[[note]]Though Shakespeare got it via François de Belleforest's French ''Histoires Tragiques'' (1570).[[/note]] 2022's ''Film/TheNorthman'' loosely adapts the story of Amleth.
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As a source on Myth/NorseMythology, ''Gesta Danorum'' has been in the shadow of the Icelandic Literature/{{Edda}}s ''Eddas'' and Sagas ''[[Literature/TheIcelandicSagas Sagas]]'' since the 19th century, although before it, the opposite was the case. Thanks to its use of Latin rather than Old Norse, ''Gesta Danorum'' appealed to Renaissance scholars and was first printed in Paris in 1514, which is why the story of Amleth could find its way to Elizabethan England to serve as the basis of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's play ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.[[note]]Though Shakespeare got it via François de Belleforest's French ''Histoires Tragiques'' (1570).[[/note]] 2022's ''Film/TheNorthman'' loosely adapts the story of Amleth.
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The name is given as Sivard(us) in Gesta Danorum.
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* DyingDealUpgrade: Sigurd, son of Ragnar Lodbrog, is severely wounded in the first battle he fights in, and it looks like he is going to die. A strange, very tall man who calls himself Roftar appears and promises Sigurd that he will cure him, if Sigurd in turn agrees to "consecrate unto him [Roftar] the souls of all whom he [Sigurd] should overcome in battle". When Sigurd agrees, Roftar instantly heals his wound with a touch of his hand, and at the same time makes little snakes appear in Sigurd's eyes. Sigurd, now called Sigurd Snake-Eye, later becomes a great warrior-king. We are expected to understand that "Roftar" was Odin.
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* DyingDealUpgrade: Sigurd, Sivard, son of Ragnar Lodbrog, is severely wounded in the first battle he fights in, and it looks like he is going to die. A strange, very tall man who calls himself Roftar appears and promises Sigurd Sivard that he will cure him, if Sigurd Sivard in turn agrees to "consecrate unto him [Roftar] the souls of all whom he [Sigurd] [Sivard] should overcome in battle". When Sigurd Sivard agrees, Roftar instantly heals his wound with a touch of his hand, and at the same time makes little snakes appear in Sigurd's Sivard's eyes. Sigurd, Sivard, now called Sigurd Sivard Snake-Eye, later becomes a great warrior-king. We are expected to understand that "Roftar" was Odin.
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* HealingHands: Odin (in the shape of Roftar) offers to heal the wounds of Sigurd Ragnarsson if Sigurd will promise to dedicate all men he is going to kill in his life to Odin. When Sigurd agrees, Roftar touches him with his hand, causing the wound to close and scar over at once.
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* HealingHands: Odin (in the shape of Roftar) offers to heal the wounds of Sigurd Sivard Ragnarsson if Sigurd Sivard will promise to dedicate all men he is going to kill in his life to Odin. When Sigurd Sivard agrees, Roftar touches him with his hand, causing the wound to close and scar over at once.
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* FaintInShock: When Odin makes snakes appear on the eyes of the boy Sigurd Ragnarsson, Sigurd's nurse faints in terror at the sight.
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* FaintInShock: When Odin makes little snakes appear on in the eyes of the boy Sigurd Sivard Ragnarsson, Sigurd's an old woman acting as Sivard's nurse faints in terror at the sight.
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* DirtyCop: After Starkad has been wounded in a duel, a passer-by asks him how he will reward him if he will patch up his wounds. Starka, who does not want to accept help from "those in low walks of life", asks him what his social position is, and learns that the man is a bailiff. Upon this revelation Starkad at once showers him with abuse for disregarding his "honourable duties", talking sneeringly about everone, launching wrongful charges against innocents, snooping around in other people's business, and harassing "harmless characters" at every opportunity. The passage not only makes clear that Starkad considers all bailiffs lowlifes, but the fact that the bailiff would only help if promised a reward first also suggests Starkad's accusations are not far from the truth.
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* DirtyCop: After Starkad has been wounded in a duel, a passer-by asks him how he will reward him if he will patch up his wounds. Starka, Starkad, who does not want to accept help from "those in low walks of life", asks him what his social position is, and learns that the man is a bailiff. Upon this revelation Starkad at once showers him with abuse for disregarding his "honourable duties", talking sneeringly about everone, launching wrongful charges against innocents, snooping around in other people's business, and harassing "harmless characters" at every opportunity. The passage not only makes clear that Starkad considers all bailiffs lowlifes, but the fact that the bailiff would only help if promised a reward first also suggests Starkad's accusations are not far from the truth.
