Broder

Family: Danes · Role: son of Jarmerik · First appears: Book Eight · Part 12

Life events

Bikk accused Broder of incest and suborned witnesses against him.(Book Eight · Part 12)
- With: Bikk
- “But Bikk accused this man to his father of incest; and, to conceal the falsehood of the charge, suborned witnesses against him.”
Jarmerik ordered Broder hanged, but had him held up so he would not be choked.(Book Eight · Part 12)
- With: Jarmerik
- “The king yielded to Bikk; and, when his son was to be hanged, he made the bystanders hold him up by means of a plank, that he might not be choked.”
Broder was freed from death after the king sent men to take him down from the noose.(Book Eight · Part 12)
- “Thus Broder was freed from death, and Bikk, fearing he would pay the penalty of an informer, went and told the men of the Hellespont that Swanhild had been abominably slain by her husband.”
Jarmerik lost both feet and hands, and Broder succeeded him as king.(Book Eight · Part 13)
- With: Jarmerik
- “Jarmerik lost both feet and both hands, and his trunk was rolled among the dead. BRODER, little fit for it, followed him as king.”

parent: Jarmerik “Meantime, the king appointed Broder, his son by another marriage, to have charge over his stepmother, a duty which he fulfilled with full vigilance and integrity.”
enemies with Bikk (Bikk falsely accused Broder and suborned witnesses against him.) “But Bikk accused this man to his father of incest; and, to conceal the falsehood of the charge, suborned witnesses against him.”

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