Hanef

Family: Saxons · First appears: Book Six · Part 5

Life events

• Swerting and Hanef rejected Frode’s rule and openly rebelled.(Book Six · Part 5)
  • With: Frode (father of Ingild) Swerting
  • “Swerting and Hanef, the kings of Saxony, disowned his sway, and tried to rebel openly.”
• Frode defeated Swerting and Hanef in battle and imposed a poll-tax on the conquered peoples.(Book Six · Part 5)
  • With: Frode (father of Ingild) Swerting
  • “He overcame them in battle, and imposed on the conquered peoples a poll-tax of a coin, which they were to pay as his slaves.”
• Frode killed Hanef near the village of Hanofra.(Book Six · Part 9 · 📍 Hanofra (Hanover))
  • With: Frode (father of Ingild)
  • “Frode took his forces over the Elbe, and killed him near the village of Hanofra (Hanover), so named after Hanef.”

Book Six · Part 5

• enemies with Frode (father of Ingild) “And, after his father's death, while he was in his twelfth year, Swerting and Hanef, the kings of Saxony, disowned his sway, and tried to rebel openly. He overcame them in battle”

Book Six · Part 9

• enemies with Frode (father of Ingild) “Frode took his forces over the Elbe, and killed him near the village of Hanofra (Hanover), so named after Hanef.”

Also listed in Saxons — Minor Figures

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