Danes — Minor Figures

10 figures from Beowulf (Gummere's translation) who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Freawaru

princess · first appears Section XXVIII

• Section XXVIII · engaged with Ingeld “Promised is she, gold-decked maid, to the glad son of Froda.”
• Section XXVIII · parent: Hrothgar “Oft to the heroes Hrothgar's daughter, to earls in turn, the ale-cup tendered, -- she whom I heard these hall-companions Freawaru name, when fretted gold she proffered the warriors.”

Hrethric

son of Hrothgar · first appears Section XVII

• Section XVII · siblings with Hrothmund “Then she turned to the seat where her sons wereplaced, Hrethric and Hrothmund, with heroes' bairns, young men together: the Geat, too, sat there, Beowulf brave, the brothers between.”
• Section XXVI · parent: Hrothgar “If thy Hrethric should come to court of Geats, a sovran's son, he will surely there find his friends.”

Hrothulf

first appears Section XV

• Section XVII · elder kin: Hrothgar “where the good pair sit, uncle and nephew, true each to the other one”

Wulfgar

herald · first appears Section V

• Section V · lord: Hrothgar “Wulfgar spake to his winsome lord: -- “Hither have fared to thee far-come men”

Beowulf the Scylding

son and heir of Scyld · first appears Prelude of the Founder of the Danish House

• Prelude of the Founder of the Danish House · parent: Scyld “Famed was this Beowulf: far flew the boast of him, son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands.”
• Section I · child: Healfdene “in fame with all folk, since his father had gone away from the world, till awoke an heir, haughty Healfdene, who held through life,”

Halga

son of Healfdene · first appears Section I

• Section I · parent: Healfdene “Then, one after one, there woke to him, to the chieftain of clansmen, children four: Heorogar, then Hrothgar, then Halga brave;”

Yrmenlaf

first appears Section XX

• Section XX · siblings with Aeschere “of Yrmenlaf the elder brother,”

Heoroweard

prince · first appears Section XXIX

• Section XXIX · parent: Heorogar “yet not to his son the sovran left it, to daring Heoroweard”

Scyld

king · first appears Prelude of the Founder of the Danish House

• Prelude of the Founder of the Danish House · child: Beowulf the Scylding “Famed was this Beowulf: far flew the boast of him, son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands.”

Hrothmund

first appears Section XVII

• Section XVII · siblings with Hrethric “Then she turned to the seat where her sons wereplaced, Hrethric and Hrothmund, with heroes' bairns, young men together: the Geat, too, sat there, Beowulf brave, the brothers between.”

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