Asmund (son of Alf)

Also known as: Asmund · First appears: Book Five · Part 22

Life events

Asmund and Aswid swore that the survivor would be buried with the one who died.(Book Five · Part 22)
- With: Aswid
- “Moreover, the son of the king and he, when they had lived together a short while, swore by every vow, in order to ratify the friendship which they observed to one another, that whichever of them lived longest should be buried with him who died.”
After Aswid died, Asmund had himself buried with him in accordance with their oath.(Book Five · Part 22)
- With: Aswid
- “Meanwhile Aswid died of an illness, and was consigned with his horse and dog to a cavern in the earth. And Asmund, because of his oath of friendship, had the courage to be buried with him, food being put in for him to eat.”
Asmund escaped the barrow after taking the youth’s place in the basket.(Book Five · Part 23)
- “Then he gave the signal to draw him up to those above who were standing by and controlling the rope.”
Asmund killed Aswid after Aswid attacked him in the barrow.(Book Five · Part 23)
- With: Aswid
- “Yet the bringer of horrors did it not unscathed; for soon I cut off his head with my steel, and impaled his guilty carcase with a stake.”

parent: Alf (king in Hethmark) “At the same time Alf was king in Hethmark, and he had a son Asmund.”
friends with Aswid “Moreover, the son of the king and he, when they had lived together a short while, swore by every vow, in order to ratify the friendship which they observed to one another, that whichever of them lived longest should be buried with him who died.”

enemies with Aswid “Besides all this, I have fought with the dead, enduring the heavy burden and grievous peril of the wrestle; Aswid rose again and fell on me with rending nails, by hellish might renewing ghastly warfare after he was ashes.”

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