Hugleik (king of Ireland)
Also known as: Hugleik · Role: king · First appears: Book Six · Part 7
In Book Six · Part 7, Hugleik was king of Ireland when Hakon and Starkad brought a fleet to its shore. In Book Six · Part 8, he had the friendship of Geigad and Swipdag, who defended his riches; Starkad killed Hugleik and routed the Irish. Then the Danes brought the king’s wealth out of the treasury in Dublin and pillaged it publicly.
Relationship record
Life events
- Starkad killed Hugleik and routed the Irish.(Book Six · Part 8)
- With: Starkad
- “Starkad conquered, killed Hugleik and routed the Irish;”
- The king’s wealth was brought from the treasury and publicly pillaged.(Book Six · Part 8 · 📍 Dublin)
- “Then the Danes ordered that the wealth of the king should be brought out of the treasury in the city of Dublin and publicly pillaged.”
Book Six · Part 7
- enemies with Hakon (lord of Starkad) (Hakon leads an invasion of Hugleik's Ireland.) “Starkad took his fleet to the shore of Ireland with Hakon, in order that even the furthest kingdoms of the world might not be untouched by the Danish arms. The king of the island at this time was Hugleik”
Book Six · Part 8
- friends with Geigad “Still Hugleik had the friendship of Geigad and Swipdag, nobles of tried valour, who, by the lustre of their warlike deeds, shone out among their unmanly companions like jewels embedded in ordure; these alone were found to defend the riches of the king.”
- friends with Swipdag (friend of Hugleik) “Still Hugleik had the friendship of Geigad and Swipdag, nobles of tried valour, who, by the lustre of their warlike deeds, shone out among their unmanly companions like jewels embedded in ordure; these alone were found to defend the riches of the king.”
- enemies with Hakon (lord of Starkad) “When a battle began between Hugleik and Hakon, the hordes of mimes, whose light-mindedness unsteadied their bodies, broke their ranks and scurried off in panic;”
- enemies with Starkad “Starkad conquered, killed Hugleik and routed the Irish;”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.