Heorogar
Family: Danes · Role: son of Healfdene · First appears: Section I
In Section I, Heorogar is named among the four children of Healfdene, after whom come Hrothgar and Halga. In Section VII, Hrothgar recalls that his elder brother was already dead when he first ruled the Danes, saying, “Heorogar was dead, my elder brother, had breathed his last”.
In Section XXIX, the poem says Heorogar did not leave his war-gear to his son, Heoroweard.
Relationship record
Life events
- Healfdene had four children, including Heorogar, Hrothgar, and Halga.(Section I)
- Hrothgar recalls that his elder brother Heorogar was dead when he first ruled the Danes.(Section VII)
- With: Hrothgar
- “Heorogar was dead, my elder brother, had breathed his last, Healfdene's bairn: he was better than I!”
Section I
- parent: Healfdene (The passage names three of Healfdene's four children.) “Then, one after one, there woke to him, to the chieftain of clansmen, children four: Heorogar, then Hrothgar, then Halga brave;”
Section VII
- siblings with Hrothgar “Heorogar was dead, my elder brother, had breathed his last,”
- parent: Healfdene “my elder brother, had breathed his last, Healfdene's bairn: he was better than I!”
Section XXIX
- child: Heoroweard “yet not to his son the sovran left it, to daring Heoroweard”
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Extracted from the original text of Beowulf (Gummere's translation). Made with Rho MD.