Hermutrude

Role: queen · First appears: Book Four · Part 4

Life events

• Hermutrude discovered Amleth's identity and learned of his deeds from his shield.(Book Four · Part 4 · 📍 Scotland)
  • “Then she knew that here was the man who, trusting in his own nicely calculated scheme, had avenged on his uncle the murder of his father.”
• Hermutrude replaced the letter with a forged commission asking her to marry Amleth.(Book Four · Part 4 · 📍 Scotland)
  • With: Amleth
  • “But she wrote in its place a commission purporting to be sent from the King of Britain to herself, signed like the other with his name and title, wherein she pretended that she was asked to marry the bearer.”
• Hermutrude urged Amleth to marry her and embraced him.(Book Four · Part 4 · 📍 Scotland)
  • With: Amleth
  • “Therefore she pressed him to transfer his wooing, to make over to her his marriage vows, and to learn to prefer birth to beauty. So saying, she fell upon him with a close embrace.”
• Amleth married the maiden.(Book Four · Part 5)
  • With: Amleth
  • “Then a banquet was held, friends bidden, the nobles gathered, and the marriage rites performed.”
• Amleth returned to Britain with Hermutrude as his bride.(Book Four · Part 5 · 📍 Britain)
  • With: Amleth
  • “When they were accomplished, he went back to Britain with his bride”
• Hermutrude became Wiglek's bride after Amleth's death.(Book Four · Part 6)
  • With: Wiglek
  • “she yielded herself up unasked to be the conqueror's spoil and bride.”

Book Four · Part 4

• admired: Amleth “Therefore she pressed him to transfer his wooing, to make over to her his marriage vows, and to learn to prefer birth to beauty.”

Book Four · Part 6

• married with Amleth “Yet Amleth was enchained by such great love for Hermutrude, that he was more deeply concerned in his mind about her future widowhood than about his own death, and cast about very zealously how he could decide on some second husband for her before the opening of the war.”
• married with Wiglek “she yielded herself up unasked to be the conqueror's spoil and bride”

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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.