Hondscio

Family: Geats · Role: warrior · First appears: Section XXVIII

Life events

• Beowulf tells that Grendel killed and devoured Hondscio during the attack on the hall.(Section XXVIII · 📍 Heorot)
  • With: Grendel
  • “To Hondscio then was that harassing deadly, his fall there was fated. He first was slain, girded warrior. Grendel on him turned murderous mouth, on our mighty kinsman, and all of the brave man's body devoured.”

Section XXVIII

• enemies with Grendel “To Hondscio then was that harassing deadly, his fall there was fated. He first was slain, girded warrior. Grendel on him turned murderous mouth, on our mighty kinsman,”

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Extracted from the original text of Beowulf (Gummere's translation). Made with Rho MD.