Other Figures — Minor Figures

171 figures from The Danish History, Books I–IX who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Bemon (rover)

first appears Book Six · Part 7

• Book Six · Part 7 · friends with Frakk “For Bemon's partner, named Frakk, weary of the toil of sea-roving, had lately withdrawn from partnership with him, after first making a money-bargain.”
• Book Six · Part 7 · friends with Starkad “When Starkad had thus treacherously acted he took Wikar's ship and went to one Bemon, the most courageous of all the rovers of Denmark, in order to take up the life of a pirate.”

Gardar

warrior · first appears Book Eight · Part 3

• Book Eight · Part 3 · enemies with Starkad “He also relates that one Roa, with two others, Gnepie and Gardar, fell wounded by him in the field.”

Gnepie

warrior · first appears Book Eight · Part 3

• Book Eight · Part 3 · enemies with Starkad “He also relates that one Roa, with two others, Gnepie and Gardar, fell wounded by him in the field.”

Ker

first appears Book Eight · Part 8

• Book Eight · Part 8 · enemies with Starkad “And soon, when Ker the captain made ready a war by sea, with a noble army we beat his serried ships.”

Roa

warrior · first appears Book Eight · Part 3

• Book Eight · Part 3 · enemies with Starkad “He also relates that one Roa, with two others, Gnepie and Gardar, fell wounded by him in the field.”

Siward (son of Halfdan)

King of Sweden · first appears Book Six · Part 15

• Book Six · Part 15 · benefactor: Starkad “Halfdan had been killed by his rivals; and Starkad, after quelling certain rebels, set up Siward as the heir to his father's sovereignty.”

Storwerk

first appears Book Six · Part 6

• Book Six · Part 6 · child: Starkad “At the same time one Starkad, the son of Storwerk, escaped alone, either by force or fortune, from a wreck in which his friends perished, and was received by Frode as his guest for his incredible excellence both of mind and body.”

Tanne

giant · first appears Book Six · Part 8

• Book Six · Part 8 · enemies with Starkad “Then Starkad, trusting in his bodily strength, fought with and overcame a giant at Byzantium, reputed invincible, named Tanne, and drove him to fly an outlaw to unknown quarters of the earth.”

Wasce

champion · first appears Book Six · Part 8

• Book Six · Part 8 · enemies with Starkad “Therefore, finding that he was too mighty for any hard fate to overcome him, he went to the country of Poland, and conquered in a duel a champion whom our countrymen name Wasce; but the Teutons, arranging the letters differently, call him Wilzce.”