Wig

Family: Danes · Role: son of Frowin · First appears: Book Four · Part 6

In Book Four · Part 6, Frowin had two sons, Ket and Wig, whose excellence was said to match their father’s; Wig and Ket were youths of brilliant parts. In Book Four · Part 9, after Athisl claimed he alone had slain Frowin, Wig and Ket vowed to avenge their father.

In Book Four · Part 10, Wig could not bear to watch Ket’s duel with Athisl and joined in to defend his brother, putting affection before the duel’s appointed conditions. Together they killed Athisl, cut off his head, and delivered his body to villagers, declaring their vengeance for Frowin. Wermund received the brothers with the highest honours.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ket and Wig swore to unite in avenging their father.(Book Four · Part 9)
  • With: Ket
  • “and they swore a vow to unite in avenging their father.”
• Wig joined the duel to defend Ket, violating its appointed conditions.(Book Four · Part 10)
  • With: Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) Ket
  • “Wig, leaning more to personal love than to general usage, could not bear the sight, but made affection conquer shame, and attacking Athisl, chose rather to defend the weakness of his brother than to look on at it.”
• Ket and Wig killed Athisl and delivered his body to villagers.(Book Four · Part 10)
  • With: Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) Ket
  • “Thereupon they perceived themselves that their killing of Athisl had been more swift than glorious. Yet, not to hide the deed from the common people, they cut off his head, slung his body on a horse, took it out of the wood, and handed it over to the dwellers in a village near, announcing that the sons of Frowin had taken vengeance upon Athisl, King of the Swedes, for the slaying of their father.”
• Wermund received Ket and Wig with the highest honours for killing Athisl.(Book Four · Part 10)
  • With: Ket Wermund
  • “Boasting of such a victory as this, they were received by Wermund with the highest honours; for he thought they had done a most useful deed, and he preferred to regard the glory of being rid of a rival with more attention than the infamy of committing an outrage.”

Book Four · Part 6

• parent: Frowin “Frowin had two sons, Ket and Wig, who were youths of most brilliant parts, and their excellence, not less than that of Frowin, Wermund destined to the future advantage of his son.”
• siblings with Ket “Frowin had two sons, Ket and Wig, who were youths of most brilliant parts, and their excellence, not less than that of Frowin, Wermund destined to the future advantage of his son.”

Book Four · Part 9

• siblings with Ket (Wig is the brother referred to, as Ket and Wig are the two named men in the passage.) “When Ket saw that the king regularly walked apart alone in order to train his strength, he took up his arms, and with his brother followed the king as he walked in front of them.”
• enemies with Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) (Ket and Wig confront Athisl to avenge Frowin.) “Then they said that they would take vengeance for his slaying of Frowin, especially as he avowed with so many arrogant vaunts that he alone was his slayer.”
• parent: Frowin (Their father is identified in the surrounding passage as Frowin.) “This naturally much angered Ket and Wig, and they swore a vow to unite in avenging their father.”

Book Four · Part 10

• enemies with Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) “and attacking Athisl, chose rather to defend the weakness of his brother than to look on at it.”
• siblings with Ket “and attacking Athisl, chose rather to defend the weakness of his brother than to look on at it.”
• parent: Frowin “they cut off his head, slung his body on a horse, took it out of the wood, and handed it over to the dwellers in a village near, announcing that the sons of Frowin had taken vengeance upon Athisl, King of the Swedes, for the slaying of their father.”

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