Vogg

A friend of Hrolf. Vogg was a servant of Yrsa, who was the mother of Hrolf, king of Denmark. At the time, Yrsa was married to Adils, king of Sweden, and Vogg was serving Yrsa as her servant and her champion.

In Hrolfs saga Kraki, when Hrolf came to visit his mother in Sweden and asked for his inheritance from his mother, Adils tried to ambush Hrolf and his twelve champions. After repelling the attack in the palace, Vogg met Hrolf for the first time and thought that the Danish king looked like a ladder carved from a pole, which was how Hrolf earned the name Kraki, meaning "beanpole". For this new name, Hrolf gave his gold ring to Vogg, but Vogg had no gift to give to the king. So Vogg promised that if Hrolf were ever killed, he would avenge the king.

The Prose Edda differed from the saga, however. Vogg was a young boy and poor when he first met Hrolf in Denmark, when Hrolf was a young king, though the age was not specific. It was this meeting that Vogg gave the king and in return received Hrolf's gold ring. For this ring, Vogg promised to avenge him if he were ever killed.

When news reached Sweden that Hrolf and his champions had been killed, Yrsa sent Vogg to avenge her son's death, giving him command of the Swedish forces. Vogg and others took the Danish capital and captured Skuld, Hrolf's half-sister.