Þorveig

Thorveig is the witch of Kormáks saga whose curse dooms the poet's love. When the hot-tempered Kormák kills her sons and then refuses to pay the blood-money owed for them, the wronged Thorveig lays a spell on him: that he and Steingerð, the woman he loves, shall never come together, however much they desire it. The curse holds with cruel precision — Kormák loves Steingerð his whole life, fights duels over her, follows her from husband to husband, and yet, twice failing even to come to his own wedding, can never possess her. Thorveig is the saga's image of the wronged witch whose vengeance is subtler and crueler than any killing — not death but a lifelong thwarting, a love made real and kept forever just out of reach. The curse that turns a great love-poet's passion into the source of his lasting grief, repayment in kind for a debt of blood he would not honour.