Wagnhofde

Role: guardian · First appears: Book One · Part 4

In Book One · Part 4, Brage sent Guthorm and Hadding to Sweden, placing them in the charge of Wagnhofde and Hafle for guarding and rearing. In Book One · Part 7, Wagnhofde rode up to fight on Hadding’s side.

Relationship record

Life events

• Brage sent Guthorm and Hadding to Sweden and placed them in Wagnhofde and Hafle’s charge.(Book One · Part 4 · 📍 Sweden)
  • With: Guthorm (son of Gram) Hadding Brage Hafle Swipdag
  • “GUTHORM and HADDING, the son of Gram (Groa being the mother of the first and Signe of the second), were sent over to Sweden in a ship by their foster-father, Brage (Swipdag being now master of Denmark), and put in charge of the giants Wagnhofde and Hafle, for guard as well as rearing.”
• Wagnhofde rode up to fight on Hadding's side.(Book One · Part 7)
  • With: Hadding
  • “Hadding therefore called on the powers with which he was allied to protect him, and on a sudden Wagnhofde rode up to fight on his side.”

Book One · Part 4

• ward: Guthorm (son of Gram) “GUTHORM and HADDING, the son of Gram (Groa being the mother of the first and Signe of the second), were sent over to Sweden in a ship by their foster-father, Brage (Swipdag being now master of Denmark), and put in charge of the giants Wagnhofde and Hafle, for guard as well as rearing.”
• ward: Hadding “GUTHORM and HADDING, the son of Gram (Groa being the mother of the first and Signe of the second), were sent over to Sweden in a ship by their foster-father, Brage (Swipdag being now master of Denmark), and put in charge of the giants Wagnhofde and Hafle, for guard as well as rearing.”

Book One · Part 5

• child: Hardgrep “Hardgrep, daughter of Wagnhofde, tried to enfeeble his firm spirit with her lures of love, contending and constantly averring that he ought to offer the first dues of the marriage bed in wedlock with her, who had proffered to his childhood most zealous and careful fostering, and had furnished him with his first rattle.”

Book One · Part 7

• enemies with Asmund (son of Swipdag) “And when Asmund saw his crooked sword, he cried out, and broke into the following strain:”
• friends with Hadding “Hadding therefore called on the powers with which he was allied to protect him, and on a sudden Wagnhofde rode up to fight on his side.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.