Froger

Family: Swedes · Role: king · First appears: Book Four · Part 13

Life events

• Frode the Vigorous slew Froger by catching up dust from beneath his feet.(Book Four · Part 13)
  • With: Frode the Vigorous
  • “So Frode caught up some dust from the ground whence Froger had gone, and thought that he had been granted an omen of victory. Nor was he deceived in his presage; for he straightway slew Froger”

Book Four · Part 13

• enemies with Frode the Vigorous “Nor was he deceived in his presage; for he straightway slew Froger, and by this petty trick won the greatest name for bravery; for he gained by craft what had been permitted to no man's strength before.”
• parent: Odin (The text attributes this parentage to some accounts.) “According to some, he was the son of Odin, and when he begged the immortal gods to grant him a boon, received the privilege that no man should conquer him, save he who at the time of the conflict could catch up in his hand the dust lying beneath Froger's feet.”

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