Ref

Family: Norwegians · Role: man of Thule · First appears: Book Eight · Part 21

In Book Eight · Part 21, Gaut treated Ref with friendship and gave him a heavy bracelet. Ref then said Gotrik was more generous than Gaut, while Ulf challenged those who praised the king to wager on their claims.

In Book Eight · Part 22, Gotrik gave Ref two bracelets and sent him to test Sweden’s strength. Ref returned to Norway and slew his opponent after the man refused to pay the wager; on the mission to Sweden, Ref was killed by the Swedes as he slept.

Relationship record

Life events

• Gaut presented Ref with a heavy bracelet.(Book Eight · Part 21)
  • With: Gaut
  • “Gaut treated Ref with attention and friendship, and presented him with a heavy bracelet.”
• Ref said that Gotrik was more generous than Gaut.(Book Eight · Part 21)
  • With: Gotrik Gaut
  • “and said that Gotrik was more generous than Gaut.”
• Gotrik gave Ref two bracelets as gifts.(Book Eight · Part 22)
  • With: Gotrik
  • “Straightway Ref put it upon his arm, which he displayed to them all adorned with gold, but the other arm he kept hidden as lacking ornament; for which shrewdness he received a gift equal to the first from that hand of matchless generosity.”
• Ref slew his opponent after the man refused to pay the wager.(Book Eight · Part 22 · 📍 Norway)
  • “So Ref returned to Norway and slew his opponent, who refused to pay the wager.”
• Gotrik sent Ref to test Sweden's strength, and the Swedes killed Ref.(Book Eight · Part 22 · 📍 Sweden)
  • With: Gotrik
  • “Nor was it enough for Gotrik to subjugate Germany: he appointed Ref on a mission to try the strength of Sweden. The Swedes feared to slay him with open violence, but ventured to act like bandits, and killed him, as he slept, with the blow of a stone.”

Book Eight · Part 21

• friends with Gaut “Gaut treated Ref with attention and friendship, and presented him with a heavy bracelet.”
• benefactor: Gaut “Gaut treated Ref with attention and friendship, and presented him with a heavy bracelet.”
• rivals with Ulf (Ulf challenged Ref to a wager.) “But Ulf persisted not only in stubbornly repeating his praises of the king, but in bringing them to the proof; and proposed their gainsayer a wager.”

Book Eight · Part 22

• benefactor: Gotrik (Gotrik gives Ref a bracelet.) “And thereupon he drew a bracelet from his arm, called the man to him, and put it between his lips.”
• lord: Gotrik “Nor was it enough for Gotrik to subjugate Germany: he appointed Ref on a mission to try the strength of Sweden.”

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