Thryth

First appears: Section XXVII

In the digression in Section XXVII, the poem tells that before she went as a bride, Thryth had men who dared look her in the face seized and condemned to death. At her father’s bidding, she then went to Offa’s hall as a bride and became queen, “rich in goods”; after marrying Offa, she wrought fewer folk-horrors.

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Life events

• In a digression, the poem tells that Thryth had men who dared look her in the face seized and condemned to death.(Section XXVII)
  • “Was none so daring that durst make bold (save her lord alone) of the liegemen dear that lady full in the face to look, but forged fetters he found his lot, bonds of death! And brief the respite; soon as they seized him, his sword-doom was spoken, and the burnished blade a baleful murder proclaimed and closed.”
• In a digression, the poem tells that Thryth went as a bride to Offa and became queen.(Section XXVII · 📍 Offa's hall)
  • With: Offa
  • “after she went, gold-decked bride, to the brave young prince, atheling haughty, and Offa's hall o'er the fallow flood at her father's bidding safely sought, where since she prospered, royal, throned, rich in goods,”
• In a digression, the poem tells that after marrying Offa, Thryth wrought fewer folk-horrors.(Section XXVII)
  • With: Offa
  • “that of these folk-horrors fewer she wrought, onslaughts of evil, after she went, gold-decked bride, to the brave young prince,”

Section XXVII

• married with Offa “gold-decked bride, to the brave young prince, atheling haughty, and Offa's hall”

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