Hjalte

Role: Bjarke's messmate · First appears: Book Two · Part 11

Life events

Bjarke bade Hjalte drink the bear's blood to make him stronger.(Book Two · Part 11)
- With: Bjarke
- “For it was believed that a draught of this sort caused an increase of bodily strength.”
Hjalte cut off his mistress’s nose after she asked whom she should marry if he died.(Book Two · Part 12)
- “and, resenting that she needed a successor to his love, he cut off her nose and made her unsightly”
Hjalte returned to town and fought the attackers.(Book Two · Part 12 · 📍 Leire)
- With: Rolf
- “Then he went quickly back to the town and plunged into the densest of the fray, mowing down the opposing ranks as he gave blow for blow.”
Hjalte woke Bjarke and urged him to take up arms for the king.(Book Two · Part 12)
- With: Bjarke
- “Passing the sleeping-room of Bjarke, who was still slumbering, he bade him wake up”
Hjalte fought in the battle and caused great carnage.(Book Two · Part 13)
- “And when Hjalte had wrought very great carnage and stained the battle with blood”

friends with Bjarke “but it chanced that his messmate, named Bjarke, received a violent blow”

lord: Rolf “Hjalte, who was foremost in tried bravery among the nobles of the king, chanced to have gone out in the dead of that same night into the country and given himself to the embraces of a harlot.”

lord: Rolf “My master is the greatest of the Danes: let each man, as he is valorous, stand by him; far, far hence be all cowards!”

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