Ubbe the Frisian

Also known as: Ubbe · Family: Frisians · Role: champion · First appears: Book Seven · Part 18

In Book Seven · Part 18, Harald Hyldetand subdued and bound Ubbe at Jutland, where Ubbe had been ravaging the borders and harming the common people. Harald gave him his sister in marriage and gained him as a soldier. In Book Eight · Part 4, Hagder, Rolder and Grettir killed Ubbe with arrows from afar: a hundred and forty-four pierced his breast before his strength failed.

Relationship record

Life events

• Harald subdued and bound Ubbe, then gave him his sister in marriage and gained him as a soldier.(Book Seven · Part 18 · 📍 Jutland)
  • With: Harald Hyldetand
  • “he charged his soldiers to grip him with their hands, throw him on the ground, and to bind him while thus overpowered. Thus he only overcame the man and mastered him by a shameful kind of attack, though a little before he thought he would inflict a heavy defeat on him. But Harald gave him his sister in marriage, and thus gained him for his soldier.”
• Hagder, Rolder, and Grettir killed Ubbe with a shower of arrows.(Book Eight · Part 4)
  • With: Hagder Rolder Grettir
  • “But, fearing to assault him at close quarters, they accomplished their end with arrows from afar; and thus Ubbe was riddled by a shower of arrows, no one daring to fight him hand to hand. A hundred and forty-four arrows had pierced the breast of the warrior before his bodily strength failed and he bent his knee to the earth.”

Book Seven · Part 18

• enemies with Harald Hyldetand “Then he attacked a champion of the Frisian nation, named Ubbe, who was ravaging the borders of Jutland and destroying numbers of the common people; and when Harald could not subdue him to his arms, he charged his soldiers to grip him with their hands, throw him on the ground, and to bind him while thus overpowered.”
• lord: Harald Hyldetand “But Harald gave him his sister in marriage, and thus gained him for his soldier.”

Book Eight · Part 4

• lord: Harald Hyldetand (Ubbe served as one of Harald's soldiers.) “Ubbe the Frisian, who was the readiest of Harald's soldiers,”
• enemies with Hagder “But, fearing to assault him at close quarters, they accomplished their end with arrows from afar; and thus Ubbe was riddled by a shower of arrows, no one daring to fight him hand to hand.”
• enemies with Rolder “But, fearing to assault him at close quarters, they accomplished their end with arrows from afar; and thus Ubbe was riddled by a shower of arrows, no one daring to fight him hand to hand.”
• enemies with Grettir “But, fearing to assault him at close quarters, they accomplished their end with arrows from afar; and thus Ubbe was riddled by a shower of arrows, no one daring to fight him hand to hand.”

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