Frode (father of Ingild)

Also known as: Frode · Family: Danes · Role: king · First appears: Book Six · Part 5

In Book Six · Part 5, Frogertha bore Frode to Fridleif (son of Frode). After Fridleif died, Frode succeeded him while in his twelfth year. Swerting and Hanef rejected his rule and rebelled; Frode defeated them and imposed a poll-tax on the conquered peoples.

In Book Six · Part 6, Frode received Starkad as a guest, then gave him a vessel and charged him with guarding the sea as a rover. In Book Six · Part 9, Frode killed Hanef near Hanofra, and Swerting’s plot to burn him ended with both kings killing each other. Frode was succeeded by Ingild (son of Frode). In Book Six · Part 18, Starkad sang that he had foreseen Frode would perish by the swords of enemies.