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[[Image:Faroe stamp 320 Brynhild & Buðli.jpg|right|thumb|Faroese stamp depicting Brynhild & Buðli]]
'''Buðli''' or ''Budli'' is the name of one or two legendary kings from the Scandinavian [[legendary saga]]s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Nagy |first=Michael S. |date=2018-01-02 |title=Ásmundar saga kappabana : Some Inconsistencies Explored |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0895769X.2017.1354176 |journal=ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews |language=en |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1080/0895769X.2017.1354176 |s2cid=165384985 |issn=0895-769X}}</ref>
==''Ásmundar saga kappabana''==
According to the ''[[Ásmundar saga kappabana]]'', Buðli was a Swedish king and the father of Hildr.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ásmundarson |first=Valdimar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmgJAAAAQAAJ&dq=Bu%C3%B0li+kappabana&pg=PA3 |title=Fornaldarsögur nordrlanda |date=1886 |publisher=S. Kristjánsson |language=is}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Rowe |first=Elizabeth Ashman |title=Fornaldarsögur and Heroic Legends of the Edda |date=2013 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203098608-16/fornaldars%C3%B6gur-heroic-legends-edda-elizabeth-ashman-rowe |work=Revisiting the Poetic Edda |access-date=2023-05-20 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9780203098608-16 |isbn=978-0-203-09860-8}}</ref>
The saga relates that Hildr married Helgi, the son of [[Hildebrand]], the king of the [[Huns]]. Helgi and Hildr had a son who was raised by his paternal grandfather and named Hildebrand after him.<ref name=":0" />
Hildebrand became a great warrior and was called the Hunnish champion. When his father, Helgi, had fallen in a war, his maternal grandfather, the Swedish King Buðli, was killed by a Danish king by the name of Alf. This Alf took Hildrebrand's mother, Hildr, captive and gave her to the champion Aki with whom she had a son, Asmund, who is the protagonist of the saga.
==''Völsunga saga''==
In the ''[[Völsunga saga]]'', Buðli was the father of [[Brynhildr]] (''Brünnehilde'').<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Doane |first1=Alger Nicolaus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ng-vqCqP8YQC&dq=Bu%C3%B0li+volsunga&pg=PA89 |title=Vox Intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages |last2=Pasternack |first2=Carol Braun |date=1991 |publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press |isbn=978-0-299-13094-7 |language=en}}</ref>
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