Gotwar
Family: Danes · Role: wife of Koll · First appears: Book Five · Part 1
Life events
- Frode promised Gotwar a golden necklace as the reward for managing his marriage suit.(Book Five · Part 2)
- With: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift)
- “The king saw that a bribe was wanted, and, proffering a golden necklace, promised it as the reward of her embassy.”
- Frode sent Gotwar, Westmar, and Koll on an embassy to seek the Hunnish princess for him.(Book Five · Part 2)
- With: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) Westmar Koll (guardian of Frode)
- “Frode also ordered that Westmar and Koll, with their sons, should be summoned to go on the same embassy, thinking that their cunning would avoid the shame of a rebuff.”
- Gotwar used drink to change the princess’s anger toward Frode into love and desire.(Book Five · Part 2)
- With: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift)
- “Also by the drink which she gave she changed the strictness of the maiden to desire, and replaced her vanished anger with love and delight.”
- Gotwar sent Westmar and Koll back to renew the marriage suit and challenge the king if he resisted.(Book Five · Part 2)
- With: Westmar Koll (guardian of Frode)
- “Then she bade Westmar, Koll, and their sons go to the king and urge their mission afresh; and finally, should they find him froward, to anticipate a rebuff by a challenge to fight.”
- Erik wins the flyting, and Gotwar gives him the wagered necklace.(Book Five · Part 11)
- With: Erik Shrewd-spoken Gunwar
- “Powerless to answer this, Gotwar had to give the gold to the man whom she had meant to kill”
Book Five · Part 1
- married with Koll (guardian of Frode) “The wife of Koll was Gotwar, who used to paralyse the most eloquent and fluent men by her glib and extraordinary insolence;”
Book Five · Part 11
- enemies with Erik Shrewd-spoken “Westmar, when he saw this, determined to attack the man by force, since he was the stronger of tongue, and laid down the condition that the reward of the conqueror should be the death of the conquered, so that the life of both parties was plainly at stake.”
- rivals with Erik Shrewd-spoken (They compete in a flyting.) “Erik agreed to the contest, and the gage was deposited with Gunwar. So Gotwar began thus:”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.