Grep (eldest son of Westmar)

Also known as: Grep · Family: Danes · Role: eldest of three sons sharing the name Grep · First appears: Book Five · Part 1

In Book Five · Part 1, Grep was the eldest of Westmar’s twelve sons, three of whom shared his name. Seeking to steady his promiscuous desires, he pursued Gunwar, the king’s sister. In Book Five · Part 4, Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) gave Grep leave to examine Gunwar’s suitors; Grep gathered them at a supposed banquet and killed them. He also had intercourse with Frode’s queen, Hanund.

In Book Five · Part 8, after losing a verbal exchange with Erik Shrewd-spoken, Grep rode home, roused his soldiers, and gained leave to return to the shore with a chosen troop of wizards. In Book Five · Part 9, he confessed to adultery with Hanund and tried to kill Erik with a spear. Roller struck him down with a sword.

Relationship record

Life events

• Grep (eldest) sought Gunwar's love.(Book Five · Part 1)
  • With: Gunwar
  • “At last the eldest of those who shared the name of Grep, wishing to regulate and steady his promiscuous wantonness, ventured to seek a haven for his vagrant amours in the love of the king's sister.”
• Grep had intercourse with Frode’s queen, Hanund.(Book Five · Part 4)
  • With: Hanund Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift)
  • “But Grep was contented with no humble loves; he broke out so outrageously that he was guilty of intercourse with the queen, and proved as false to the king as he was violent to all other men.”
• Grep gathered Gunwar’s suitors and killed them.(Book Five · Part 4)
  • With: Gunwar
  • “So he first gathered all the wooers of Gunwar together on the pretence of a banquet, and then lined the customary room of the princess with their heads--a gruesome spectacle for all the rest.”
• Frode granted Grep leave to examine the merits of Gunwar’s suitors.(Book Five · Part 4)
  • With: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift)
  • “At his request the king granted him leave to examine the merits of the young men.”
• Grep rode away after losing the verbal exchange.(Book Five · Part 8)
  • “At this Grep, shorn of his glibness of rejoinder, set spurs to his horse and rode away.”
• Grep roused his soldiers to fight.(Book Five · Part 8)
  • “Now when he reached home, he filled the palace with uproarious and vehement clamour; and shouting that he had been worsted in words, roused all his soldiers to fight”
• Grep gained leave to return with a chosen troop of wizards.(Book Five · Part 8 · 📍 the shore)
  • “from asking leave at least to try his sorceries by way of revenge. He gained his request, and prepared to go back to the shore with a chosen troop of wizards.”
• Grep confessed that he had committed adultery with Hanund.(Book Five · Part 9)
  • With: Hanund
  • “he confessed that he had committed it with thy wife.”
• Grep attempted to kill Erik with a spear.(Book Five · Part 9)
  • With: Erik Shrewd-spoken
  • “but Grep sprang up and ran forward to transfix Erik with a spear, wishing to buy off his own death by slaying the accuser.”
• Roller killed Grep with his sword.(Book Five · Part 9)
  • With: Roller
  • “But Roller fell on him with drawn sword, and dealt him first the doom he had himself purposed.”

Book Five · Part 1

• parent: Westmar “Westmar had twelve sons, three of whom had the same name--Grep in common.”
• admired: Gunwar “At last the eldest of those who shared the name of Grep, wishing to regulate and steady his promiscuous wantonness, ventured to seek a haven for his vagrant amours in the love of the king's sister.”

Book Five · Part 4

• courtship with Hanund (Grep has intercourse with the queen, Hanund.) “But Grep was contented with no humble loves; he broke out so outrageously that he was guilty of intercourse with the queen, and proved as false to the king as he was violent to all other men.”
• admired: Gunwar “Gunwar had many suitors; and accordingly Grep, trying to take revenge for his rebuff by stealthy wiles, demanded the right of judging the suitors, declaring that the princess ought to make the choicest match.”

Book Five · Part 8

• enemies with Erik Shrewd-spoken (Grep threatens Erik after their verbal dispute.) “Thou shalt be sorry for the words thou now belchest forth madly, and shalt pay with thy death for thy unhallowed speech.”

Book Five · Part 9

• enemies with Erik Shrewd-spoken “But Roller fell on him with drawn sword, and dealt him first the doom he had himself purposed.”
• enemies with Roller “But Roller fell on him with drawn sword, and dealt him first the doom he had himself purposed.”

Book Five · Part 10

• enemies with Erik Shrewd-spoken “For my work is as far as from that of Grep, as an act of self-defence is from an attack upon another.”

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