King of Britain

Role: king · First appears: Book Four · Part 3

Life events

• The King of Britain learned that he was the offspring of a slave.(Book Three · Part 16)
  • “he was told that he was the offspring of a slave.”
• The King of Britain gave his daughter to Amleth as a wife.(Book Three · Part 16)
  • With: Amleth
  • “Then the king adored the wisdom of Amleth as though it were inspired, and gave him his daughter to wife;”
• The King of Britain hanged Amleth's companions.(Book Three · Part 16)
  • With: Amleth
  • “Moreover, in order to fulfil the bidding of his friend, he hanged Amleth's companions on the morrow.”
• The King of Britain gave Amleth gold as compensation.(Book Three · Part 16)
  • With: Amleth
  • “and received from the king, as compensation, some gold”
• Feng and the King of Britain made a mutual compact to avenge one another.(Book Four · Part 3)
  • With: Feng
  • “For Feng and he had determined of old, by a mutual compact, that one of them should act as avenger of the other.”
• The King of Britain asked Amleth to find him a new wife, proposing the Queen of Scotland.(Book Four · Part 3)
  • With: Amleth
  • “His queen having lately died of illness, he requested Amleth to undertake the mission of making him a fresh match, saying that he was highly delighted with his extraordinary shrewdness. He declared that there was a certain queen reigning in Scotland, whom he vehemently desired to marry.”
• The King of Britain attacked Amleth, who was wounded but survived.(Book Four · Part 5)
  • With: Amleth
  • “As he rode up close, the king attacked him just under the porch of the folding doors, and would have thrust him through with his javelin, but that the hard shirt of mail threw off the blade. Amleth received a slight wound”
• Amleth used the bodies of his dead comrades to frighten the Britons into fleeing.(Book Four · Part 5)
  • With: Amleth
  • “The Britons, terrified at the spectacle, fled before fighting, conquered by the dead men whom they had overcome in life.”
• The King of Britain was killed as he fled.(Book Four · Part 5)
  • With: Amleth
  • “The Danes came down on the king as he was tardily making off, and killed him.”

Book Four · Part 3

• younger kin: Amleth (Amleth is identified as the king’s son-in-law later in the chapter.) “The King of Britain received them very graciously, and treated them with costly and royal pomp.”
• friends with Feng “Thus the king was drawn one way by his love for his daughter and his affection for his son-in-law; another way by his regard for his friend, and moreover by his strict oath and the sanctity of their mutual declarations, which it was impious to violate.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.