The sword is a fine sword, and King Siggeir is covetous of it, offering Sigmund three times its weight in gold.
All fail except Sigmund, who easily extracts it. He thrusts the sword into the Barnstokkr tree that grew in the middle of the hall and said, “The man to pull out this sword from the trunk shall receive it from me as a gift and he will find out for himself that he never bore in hand a better sword than this.” Soon after he departed every man made his attempt to pull the sword out of the wood. Although unknown to Sigmund, this is the god Odin. Part of the way through the feast a strange man appears carrying a sword. Sigmund receives it during the wedding feast for his sister, Signy.
Gram is primarily seen in the Volsunga Saga used by men in the Volsung line after Sigmund. Sigurd proofs the sword Gram by Johannes Gehrts (1901)