Hanund
Family: Huns · Role: daughter of the King of the Huns; wife of Frode · First appears: Book Five · Part 4
In Book Five · Part 4, Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) took Hanund, daughter of the King of the Huns, as his wife, and they spent three years in prosperous peace. Hanund then had intercourse with Grep (eldest son of Westmar); in Book Five · Part 9, Grep confessed, and Hanund confessed her guilt as well.
In Book Five · Part 10, Frode pardoned Hanund. By Book Five · Part 14, she had been put away and married Roller.
Relationship record
Life events
- Frode took Hanund as his wife.(Book Five · Part 4)
- With: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift)
- “And so with Hanund, the daughter of the King of the Huns, for his wife, he passed three years in the most prosperous peace.”
- Grep had intercourse with Frode’s queen, Hanund.(Book Five · Part 4)
- With: Grep (eldest son of Westmar) Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift)
- “But Grep was contented with no humble loves; he broke out so outrageously that he was guilty of intercourse with the queen, and proved as false to the king as he was violent to all other men.”
- Grep confessed that he had committed adultery with Hanund.(Book Five · Part 9)
- With: Grep (eldest son of Westmar)
- “he confessed that he had committed it with thy wife.”
- Hanund confessed her guilt.(Book Five · Part 9)
- “and she not only confessed her guilt by a cry, but also put forth in her face a blushing signal of her sin, and gave manifest token of her fault.”
- Frode pardoned Hanund.(Book Five · Part 10)
- With: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift)
- “So the king pardoned Hanund.”
- Erik married the king's sister Gunwar, and Roller married Frode's divorced queen Hanund.(Book Five · Part 14)
- With: Erik Shrewd-spoken Roller Gunwar
- “one wedding the sister of the king, and the other his divorced queen.”
Book Five · Part 2
- admirer: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) “And when he carefully inquired of his advisers who would be a fit wife for him, they all praised the daughter of the King of the Huns beyond the rest.”
Book Five · Part 4
- married with Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) “And so with Hanund, the daughter of the King of the Huns, for his wife, he passed three years in the most prosperous peace.”
- courtship with Grep (eldest son of Westmar) (Grep has intercourse with the queen, Hanund.) “But Grep was contented with no humble loves; he broke out so outrageously that he was guilty of intercourse with the queen, and proved as false to the king as he was violent to all other men.”
Book Five · Part 9
- married with Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) “The king turned to Hanund and asked her in what spirit she received the charge; and she not only confessed her guilt by a cry, but also put forth in her face a blushing signal of her sin, and gave manifest token of her fault.”
Book Five · Part 14
- married with Roller “it would be better to marry the queen, when she had been put away, to Roller”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.