Helga

Family: Danes · Role: Ingild's sister · First appears: Book Six · Part 10

In Book Six · Part 10, Ingild’s sister Helga was led by amorous wooing to return the flame of a low-born goldsmith. In Book Six · Part 12, her future marriage to Helge the Norwegian was formally pledged; Anganty was a rival suitor who challenged Helge when he learned of the match.

By Book Six · Part 15, Helga was Helge’s wife. She warned him that Starkad might punish him for neglecting their appointed fight, then shielded Starkad from Helge’s next blow. She had also given Starkad a purple mantle.

Relationship record

Life events

• Helge and Helga’s future marriage was formally pledged.(Book Six · Part 12)
  • With: Helge the Norwegian
  • “And so the troth-plight of the future marriage was most ceremoniously solemnized.”
• Helga shielded Starkad from Helge’s next blow.(Book Six · Part 15)
  • With: Starkad
  • “Helga flew quickly from the couch, caught up a shield, and, by interposing it, saved the old man from impending destruction”

Book Six · Part 10

• siblings with Ingild (son of Frode) “Ingild's sister Helga had been led by amorous wooing to return the flame of a certain low-born goldsmith”
• benefactor: Starkad “Then he travelled through Sweden, went into the house of the smith, and posted himself near the threshold muffling his face in a cap to avoid discovery.”

Book Six · Part 12

• siblings with Ingild (son of Frode) “Now Ingild had two sisters, Helga and Asa; Helga was of full age to marry, while Asa was younger and unripe for wedlock.”
• engaged with Helge the Norwegian “And so the troth-plight of the future marriage was most ceremoniously solemnized.”
• admirer: Anganty “This last was a rival suitor for the same maiden; and when he saw that the match which he had been denied was promised to Helge, he challenged him to a struggle, wishing to fight away his vexation.”
• admirer: Helge the Norwegian “Then Helge the Norwegian was moved with desire to ask for Helga for his wife, and embarked.”

Book Six · Part 13

• recipient: Starkad “Then, as though the gentle airs of spring weather were breathing upon him, he put off his cloak, and set to picking out the fleas. He also cast on the briars a purple mantle which Helga had lately given him, that no clothing might seem to lend him shelter against the raging shafts of hail.”

Book Six · Part 15

• married with Helge the Norwegian “Meantime Helga, in language betokening the greatest wariness, began to instruct her husband, saying that she knew that Starkad, as soon as he came back from conquering the champions, would punish him for his absence, thinking that he had inclined more to sloth and lust than to his promise to fight as appointed.”
• friends with Starkad “Thus the praiseworthy wit of the woman aided her friend, and her hand saved him whom her counsel had injured; for she protected the old man by her deed, as well as her husband by her warning.”
• recipient: Starkad “Helga flew quickly from the couch, caught up a shield, and, by interposing it, saved the old man from impending destruction;”

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →

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