Hun

First appears: Section XVII

Life events

• The minstrel tells that Hun with the sword "Lafing" pierced the bosom of the guest Hengest, and that the sword-death fell likewise on Finn in his own home after Guthlaf and Oslaf had told of the grim attack.(Section XVII)
  • With: Hengest Finn Guthlaf Oslaf
  • “So he escaped not the common doom, when Hun with ‘Lafing,’ the light-of-battle, best of blades, his bosom pierced: its edge was famed with the Frisian earls. On fierce-heart Finn there fell likewise, on himself at home, the horrid sword-death; for Guthlaf and Oslaf of grim attack had sorrowing told, from sea-ways landed, mourning their woes. Finn's wavering spirit bode not in breast. The burg was reddened with blood of foemen, and Finn was slain,”

Section XVII

• enemies with Hengest (The passage's pronoun refers to Hengest.) “So he escaped not the common doom, when Hun with ‘Lafing,’ the light-of-battle, best of blades, his bosom pierced:”

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