Ane
Also known as: the Archer · Role: servant · First appears: Book Six · Part 4
In Book Six · Part 4, after Amund fell, his servant Ane, called the Archer, challenged Fridleif to fight. Biorn took up the challenge instead, and the two fought, both leaving wounded; they later fought again at Agdar Ness.
In Book Six · Part 5, Fridleif reconciled Ane and Biorn, turning their hatred into friendship. He gave Juritha in marriage to Ane and made him one of his warriors; Ane also helped rear Juritha’s three-year-old son, Olaf.
Relationship record
Life events
- Ane challenged Fridleif, but Biorn took up the fight against Ane instead.(Book Six · Part 4)
- With: Fridleif (son of Frode) Biorn (champion of Fridleif)
- “and his servant Ane, surnamed the Archer, challenged Fridleif to fight him; but Biorn, being a man of meaner estate, not suffering the king to engage with a common fellow, attacked him himself.”
- Biorn and Ane fought, both leaving the encounter wounded, and later fought again at Agdar Ness.(Book Six · Part 4 · 📍 Agdar Ness)
- With: Biorn (champion of Fridleif)
- “Both of them left it wounded; and fought another also on Agdar Ness with an emulous thirst for glory.”
- Fridleif reconciled Biorn and Ane, turning their hatred into friendship.(Book Six · Part 5)
- With: Fridleif (son of Frode) Biorn (champion of Fridleif)
- “he took great pains to reconcile Biorn and Ane, who had often challenged and fought one another, and made them exchange their hatred for friendship”
- Fridleif gave Juritha in marriage to Ane and made Ane one of his warriors.(Book Six · Part 5)
- With: Fridleif (son of Frode) Juritha
- “But his mistress, Juritha, the mother of Olaf, he gave in marriage to Ane, whom he made one of his warriors”
Book Six · Part 4
- enemies with Biorn (champion of Fridleif) “But Biorn abated none of his valour for this, and, scorning bodily danger, entered the fray with heart and face so steadfast, that he seemed neither to yield anything to the skill of Ane, nor lay aside aught of his wonted courage.”
- employer: Amund “In this war Amund fell; and his servant Ane, surnamed the Archer, challenged Fridleif to fight him;”
Book Six · Part 5
- enemies with Biorn (champion of Fridleif) “Biorn and Ane, who had often challenged and fought one another”
- friends with Biorn (champion of Fridleif) “made them exchange their hatred for friendship”
- ward: Olaf (son of Fridleif) “and even entrusted to them his three-year-old son, Olaf, to rear.”
- lord: Fridleif (son of Frode) “But his mistress, Juritha, the mother of Olaf, he gave in marriage to Ane, whom he made one of his warriors;”
- married with Juritha “But his mistress, Juritha, the mother of Olaf, he gave in marriage to Ane”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.