Frogertha
Family: Norwegians · Role: daughter of Amund · First appears: Book Six · Part 3
In Book Six · Part 3, Fridleif (son of Frode) sent ambassadors to ask Amund for Frogertha’s hand, but Amund refused, citing the old tyranny of Frode. Frogertha urged her father to accept Fridleif, praising his birth and deeds.
By Book Six · Part 5, Frogertha was Fridleif’s wife, and she bore a son, Frode (father of Ingild).
Relationship record
Life events
- Fridleif sent ambassadors to ask Amund for his daughter Frogertha in marriage.(Book Six · Part 3)
- With: Fridleif (son of Frode)
- “At last, yielding to the persistent entreaties of all, he proceeded to send ambassadors to ask for the daughter of Amund, King of Norway.”
- Amund refused Fridleif's marriage petition, but Frogertha urged her father to accept him.(Book Six · Part 3)
- With: Amund
- “Around implacably declined to consent to the wishes of the king, and treated the legates shamefully, declaring that he spurned the embassy because the tyranny of Frode had of old borne so heavily upon Norway. But Amund's daughter, Frogertha, not only looking to the birth of Fridleif, but also honouring the glory of his deeds, began to upbraid her father”
- Frogertha bore a son, Frode.(Book Six · Part 5)
- With: Frode (father of Ingild)
- “Meantime his wife Frogertha bore a son FRODE”
Book Six · Part 3
- parent: Amund “But Amund's daughter, Frogertha, not only looking to the birth of Fridleif, but also honouring the glory of his deeds, began to upbraid her father, because he scorned a son-in-law whose nobility was perfect, being both sufficient in valour and flawless in birth.”
- admirer: Fridleif (son of Frode) “At last, yielding to the persistent entreaties of all, he proceeded to send ambassadors to ask for the daughter of Amund, King of Norway.”
Book Six · Part 4
- courtship with Fridleif (son of Frode) “that when fame noises the deed about, and Frogertha knows that the spoil has been won with a gallant struggle, her heart may be stirred to be more gentle to our prayer.”
- admirer: Fridleif (son of Frode) “gaily let us furrow those open waters, lest the dawn come and betray us to the foe. Lightly therefore, and pulling our hardest, let us scour the sea, making for our camp and fleet ere Titan raise his rosy head out of the clear waters; that when fame noises the deed about, and Frogertha knows that the spoil has been won with a gallant struggle, her heart may be stirred to be more gentle to our prayer.”
Book Six · Part 5
- married with Fridleif (son of Frode) “When Fridleif had returned from Norway, and was traveling through Sweden, he took on himself to act as ambassador, and sued successfully for Hythin's daughter, whom he had once rescued from a monster, to be the wife of Halfdan, he being still unwedded. Meantime his wife Frogertha bore a son FRODE”
- child: Frode (father of Ingild) “Meantime his wife Frogertha bore a son FRODE”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.