Wermund
Family: Danes · Role: king · First appears: Book Four · Part 6
In Book Four · Part 6, Wermund succeeded his father Wiglek as king. He had no children in his prime, but in old age fathered Uffe and arranged his marriage to Frowin’s daughter. In Book Four · Part 7, he raised Frowin’s sons to honours equal to their father’s and gave Folk a gold cup to drink from and keep.
In Book Four · Part 10, Wermund received Ket and Wig with the highest honours after they killed Athisl, judging the removal of a rival more important than the outrage. In Book Four · Part 11, he accepted a challenge to fight with his own hand; after the envoys departed, he praised the challenger’s courage and said he would sooner surrender his kingdom to him than to an insolent foe. In Book Four · Part 12, Wermund found the buried sword Skrep and handed it to Uffe.
Relationship record
Life events
- Wermund succeeded his father Wiglek as king.(Book Four · Part 6)
- With: Wiglek
- “WERMUND, his son, succeeded him.”
- Wermund fathered Uffe, his son, late in life.(Book Four · Part 6)
- With: Uffe (son of Wermund)
- “He had no children during the prime of his life, but in his old age, by a belated gift of fortune, he begat a son, Uffe,”
- Wermund arranged Uffe's marriage to Frowin's daughter.(Book Four · Part 6)
- With: Uffe (son of Wermund)
- “His father, seeing him such a simpleton, got him for a wife the daughter of Frowin, the governor of the men of Sleswik;”
- Wermund raised Frowin’s sons to honours equal to their father’s.(Book Four · Part 7)
- With: Frowin
- “Wermund raised the sons of Frowin to honours of the same rank as their father's”
- Wermund gave Folk a gold cup to drink from and keep.(Book Four · Part 7 · 📍 Jellinge)
- With: Folk
- “This was given him; and Wermund also bade him keep the cup, which was of gold”
- Wermund received Ket and Wig with the highest honours for killing Athisl.(Book Four · Part 10)
- Wermund accepted the challenge to fight with his own hand.(Book Four · Part 11)
- “Yet, that he might not be thought to make over the honours of his ancient freedom, like a madman, to the possession of another, he would accept the challenge with his own hand.”
- Wermund praised the challenger and said he would sooner surrender his kingdom to him than to an insolent foe.(Book Four · Part 11)
- “But on the departure of the envoys Wermund praised him who had made the answer, because he had proved his confidence in his own valour by challenging not one only, but two; and said that he would sooner quit his kingdom for him, whoever he was, than for an insolent foe.”
- Wermund unearthed the sword Skrep and gave it to Uffe.(Book Four · Part 12)
- With: Uffe (son of Wermund)
- “At last he recognised the tokens, found the spot where he had buried the sword, drew it out of its hole, and handed it to his son.”
Book Four · Part 6
- parent: Wiglek “WERMUND, his son, succeeded him.”
- child: Uffe (son of Wermund) “He had no children during the prime of his life, but in his old age, by a belated gift of fortune, he begat a son, Uffe, though all the years which had glided by had raised him up no offspring.”
Book Four · Part 7
- friends with Frowin “Wermund raised the sons of Frowin to honours of the same rank as their father's, a kindness which was only due to the children of his friend who had died for the country.”
- recipient: Folk “Wermund also bade him keep the cup, which was of gold, saying that men who were weary with the heat of wayfaring found it handier to take up the water in a goblet than in the palms, and that it was better to use a cup for drinking than the hand.”
- vassal: Ket “Wermund raised the sons of Frowin to honours of the same rank as their father's”
Book Four · Part 10
- rivals with Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) “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 11
- child: Uffe (son of Wermund) “But when one and all testified that he who with lofty self-confidence had spurned the arrogance of the envoys was his own son, he bade him come nearer to him, wishing to test with his hands what he could not with his eyes.”
Book Four · Part 12
- child: Uffe (son of Wermund) “Wermund said that his son had judged all things rightly, and bade him first learn the use of arms, since he had been little accustomed to them.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.