Gewar
Role: tutor · First appears: Book Two · Part 8
In Book Two · Part 8, Gewar was appointed tutor to Athisl and Hother, sons of a king to whom he was bound by great services. In Book Three · Part 1, Hother passed his boyhood under Gewar’s tutelage; Gewar’s daughter Nanna took a liking to the young man. In Book Three · Part 2, Hother asked Gewar for Nanna’s hand, telling him that Balder had made the same request. In Book Three · Part 3, Balder entered Gewar’s country armed to seek Nanna’s hand.
In Book Three · Part 8, Gewar was treacherously waylaid and burnt alive at night by his own satrap, Gunne.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hother was raised under King Gewar's tutelage.(Book Three · Part 1)
- With: Hother
- “When Helgi had slain Hodbrodd, his son Hother passed the length of his boyhood under the tutelage of King Gewar.”
- Hother asked Gewar for his daughter.(Book Three · Part 2)
- With: Hother
- “Returning thence, he related to Gewar the mystification that had followed on his straying, and straightway asked him for his daughter.”
- Balder had asked Gewar for his daughter.(Book Three · Part 2)
- With: Balder
- “for Balder, he said, had proffered him a like request.”
- Balder entered Gewar’s country to seek Nanna’s hand.(Book Three · Part 3 · 📍 the country of Gewar)
- Gunne treacherously waylaid and burnt Gewar alive.(Book Three · Part 8)
- With: Gunne
- “Gunne had himself treacherously waylaid Gewar, and burnt him alive in the night.”
Book Two · Part 8
- pupil: Athisl (son of Hothbrodd) “Fain to extend his empire, he warred upon the East, and after a huge massacre of many peoples begat two sons, Athisl and Hother, and appointed as their tutor a certain Gewar, who was bound to him by great services.”
- pupil: Hother “Fain to extend his empire, he warred upon the East, and after a huge massacre of many peoples begat two sons, Athisl and Hother, and appointed as their tutor a certain Gewar, who was bound to him by great services.”
Book Three · Part 1
- ward: Hother “When Helgi had slain Hodbrodd, his son Hother passed the length of his boyhood under the tutelage of King Gewar.”
- child: Nanna “All these accomplishments of the youth pleased Nanna, the daughter of Gewar, mightily, and she began to seek his embraces.”
Book Three · Part 2
- pupil: Hother “Gewar, being very learned in divining and an expert in the knowledge of omens, foresaw this; and summoning Hother, told him, when Gelder should join battle with him, to receive his spears with patience, and not let his own fly until he saw the enemy's missiles exhausted; and further, to bring up the curved scythes wherewith the vessels could be rent and the helmets and shields plucked from the soldiers.”
Book Three · Part 3
- child: Nanna “Gewar bade him learn Nanna's own mind; so he approached the maiden with the most choice and cajoling words;”
Book Three · Part 8
- enemies with Gunne “News came meantime that Gewar had been slain by the guile of his own satrap (jarl), Gunne.”
- ward: Hother “This was his offering of vengeance to the shade of his foster-father;”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.