Uffe (son of Asmund)

Also known as: Uffe · Family: Swedes · Role: Asmund's son · First appears: Book One · Part 8

Life events

• Uffe transported his army into Denmark to attack Hadding’s country.(Book One · Part 8 · 📍 Denmark)
  • “But Asmund's son, named Uffe, shrinking from a conflict, transported his army into Denmark, thinking it better to assail the house of his enemy than to guard his own”
• Uffe returned to his own country after the Danes returned to defend theirs.(Book One · Part 8)
  • “Thus the Danes had to return and defend their own, preferring the safety of their land to lordship of a foreign realm; and Uffe went back to his own country, now rid of an enemy's arms.”
• Uffe decreed that whoever slew Hadding would receive his daughter.(Book One · Part 10)
  • With: Hadding
  • “Meantime Uffe, who had a marvellously fair daughter, decreed that the man who slew Hadding should have her.”
• Hadding retaliated for the treachery and slew Uffe.(Book One · Part 10)
  • With: Hadding
  • “For this wrongful act Hadding retaliated and slew Uffe;”

Book One · Part 8

• parent: Asmund (son of Swipdag) “But Asmund's son, named Uffe, shrinking from a conflict, transported his army into Denmark, thinking it better to assail the house of his enemy than to guard his own, and deeming it a timely method of repelling his wrongs to retaliate upon his foe what he was suffering at his hands.”
• enemies with Hadding “But Asmund's son, named Uffe, shrinking from a conflict, transported his army into Denmark, thinking it better to assail the house of his enemy than to guard his own, and deeming it a timely method of repelling his wrongs to retaliate upon his foe what he was suffering at his hands.”

Book One · Part 10

• enemies with Hadding “For this wrongful act Hadding retaliated and slew Uffe; but put away his hatred and consigned his body to a sepulchre of notable handiwork, thus avowing the greatness of his foe by his pains to beautify his tomb, and decking in death with costly distinctions the man whom he used to pursue in his life with hot enmity.”
• siblings with Hunding (brother of Uffe) “Then, to win the hearts of the people he had subdued, he appointed Hunding, the brother of Uffe, over the realm, that the sovereignty might seem to be maintained in the house of Asmund, and not to have passed into the hand of a stranger.”

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