Herebeald

Family: Geats · First appears: Section XXXII

In Section XXXII, Beowulf tells that Herebeald was one of Hrethel’s sons and brother to Haethcyn and Hygelac. By unmeet chance, Haethcyn killed Herebeald with an arrow, shooting down his own brother.

Relationship record

Life events

• Beowulf tells that Haethcyn accidentally killed his brother Herebeald with an arrow.(Section XXXII)
  • With: Haethcyn
  • “For the eldest of these, by unmeet chance, by kinsman's deed, was the death-bed strewn, when Haethcyn killed him with horny bow, his own dear liege laid low with an arrow, missed the mark and his mate shot down, one brother the other, with bloody shaft.”

Section XXXII

• parent: Hrethel “Ne'er, while I lived there, he loathlier found me, bairn in the burg, than his birthright sons, Herebeald and Haethcyn and Hygelac mine.”
• siblings with Haethcyn “bairn in the burg, than his birthright sons, Herebeald and Haethcyn and Hygelac mine.”
• siblings with Hygelac “bairn in the burg, than his birthright sons, Herebeald and Haethcyn and Hygelac mine.”
• enemies with Haethcyn “when Haethcyn killed him with horny bow, his own dear liege laid low with an arrow,”

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Extracted from the original text of Beowulf (Gummere's translation). Made with Rho MD.