Swanhwid
Role: daughter of Hadding · First appears: Book Two · Part 3
In Book Two · Part 3, Swanhwid plighted her troth with Ragnar (husband of Swanhwid) and gave him a sword. In Book Two · Part 4, she won the throne of Sweden for Ragnar and took him as her husband; there, her brother Frode (son of Hadding) fought and lost a great battle against her. At Swanhwid’s request, Frode made peace with Ragnar and forgave his wrongdoing, and Swanhwid and Ragnar gave Frode a force equal to the one they had cost him.
In Book Two · Part 8, Swanhwid died soon after of an illness brought on by sorrow. Her son Hothbrodd succeeded her and Ragnar.
Relationship record
Life events
- Swanhwid plighted her troth with Ragnar.(Book Two · Part 3)
- With: Ragnar (husband of Swanhwid)
- “Thus was the youth kindled, and she plighted her troth with him,”
- Swanhwid gave Ragnar a sword.(Book Two · Part 3)
- With: Ragnar (husband of Swanhwid)
- “and proffering the sword, she thus began:”
- Swanhwid won the throne of Sweden for Ragnar, and took Ragnar for her husband.(Book Two · Part 4 · 📍 Sweden)
- With: Ragnar (husband of Swanhwid)
- “This done, she won the throne of Sweden for Ragnar, and Ragnar for her husband.”
- Frode fought and lost a great battle against his sister Swanhwid.(Book Two · Part 4 · 📍 Sweden)
- With: Frode (son of Hadding)
- “Frode was thus forced to quit the wars of the East and fought a great battle in Sweden with his sister Swanhwid, in which he was beaten.”
- Frode made peace with Ragnar at Swanhwid's request and forgave Ragnar's wrongdoing.(Book Two · Part 4)
- With: Frode (son of Hadding) Ragnar (husband of Swanhwid)
- “These reasonable entreaties touched Frode, and he made a peace with Ragnar, and forgave, at his sister's request, the wrongdoing which Ragnar, seemed to have begun because of her wantonness.”
- Swanhwid and Ragnar gave the defeated Frode a force equal to the one they had cost him.(Book Two · Part 4)
- With: Ragnar (husband of Swanhwid) Frode (son of Hadding)
- “They presented him with a force equal to that which they had caused him to lose: a handsome gift in which he rejoiced as compensation for so ugly a reverse.”
- Swanhwid died of an illness brought on by sorrow.(Book Two · Part 8)
- “Swanhwid his wife passed away soon after of a malady which she had taken from her sorrow”
Book Two · Part 3
- parent: Hadding “But Swanhwid, daughter of Hadding, wished to arrest by woman's wit the ruin of natures so noble; and taking her sisters to serve as retinue, journeyed to Sweden.”
- engaged with Ragnar (husband of Swanhwid) “Thus was the youth kindled, and she plighted her troth with him, and proffering the sword, she thus began:”
- recipient: Ragnar (husband of Swanhwid) (She gives him a sword.) “Thus was the youth kindled, and she plighted her troth with him, and proffering the sword, she thus began:”
Book Two · Part 4
- married with Ragnar (husband of Swanhwid) “This done, she won the throne of Sweden for Ragnar, and Ragnar for her husband.”
- siblings with Frode (son of Hadding) “Frode was thus forced to quit the wars of the East and fought a great battle in Sweden with his sister Swanhwid, in which he was beaten.”
- enemies with Frode (son of Hadding) “Frode was thus forced to quit the wars of the East and fought a great battle in Sweden with his sister Swanhwid, in which he was beaten.”
- recipient: Frode (son of Hadding) “They presented him with a force equal to that which they had caused him to lose”
Book Two · Part 8
- married with Ragnar (husband of Swanhwid) “Meantime Ragnar died in Sweden; and Swanhwid his wife passed away soon after of a malady which she had taken from her sorrow, following in death the husband from whom she had not endured severance in life.”
- child: Hothbrodd “Their son Hothbrodd succeeded them.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.