Hlenne
Also known as: Hlenni · Role: general · First appears: Book Eight · Part 5
In Book Eight · Part 5, Hlenni joined Atyl, Thott and Withne in plotting against Ole, and they bribed Starkad to join them. By Book Eight · Part 7, Starkad had killed Hlenne; Hlenne’s son Hather saw Starkad.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hlenni, Atyl, Thott, Withne, and other generals bribed Starkad to join their plot against Ole.(Book Eight · Part 5)
- Starkad had killed Hlenne.(Book Eight · Part 7)
- With: Starkad
- “whose father Hlenne Starkad had once killed in repentance for his own impious crime.”
Book Eight · Part 5
- enemies with Ole “Twelve generals, whether moved by the disasters of their country, or hating Ole for some other reason, began to plot against his life. Among these were Hlenni, Atyl, Thott, and Withne, the last of whom was a Dane by birth, though he held a government among the Sclavs.”
Book Eight · Part 7
- enemies with Starkad “This was seen by a certain Hather, whose father Hlenne Starkad had once killed in repentance for his own impious crime.”
- child: Hather (son of Hlenne) “This was seen by a certain Hather, whose father Hlenne Starkad had once killed in repentance for his own impious crime.”
Book Eight · Part 8
- child: Hather (son of Hlenne) “At last, when he found by their talk that Hather was the son of Hlenne, and saw that the youth was of illustrious birth, he offered him his throat to smite, bidding him not to shrink from punishing the slayer of his father.”
- servant: Starkad “He promised him that if he did so he should possess the gold which he had himself received from Hlenne.”
Book Eight · Part 9
- child: Hather (son of Hlenne) “But Hather, desiring as much to enjoy the gold as to accomplish vengeance for his father, promised that he would comply with his prayer, and would not refuse the reward.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.