Hunding (brother of Uffe)

Also known as: Hunding · Family: Swedes · Role: king · First appears: Book One · Part 10

Life events

• Hadding appointed Hunding over the realm.(Book One · Part 10)
  • With: Hadding
  • “Then, to win the hearts of the people he had subdued, he appointed Hunding, the brother of Uffe, over the realm, that the sovereignty might seem to be maintained in the house of Asmund, and not to have passed into the hand of a stranger.”
• Hunding accidentally fell into a jar of ale and died while serving at a funeral feast for Hadding.(Book One · Part 12)
  • With: Hadding
  • “And while he was passing through the palace in fulfilment of his office, he stumbled and fell into the jar, and, being choked by the liquor, gave up the ghost; thus atoning either to Orcus, whom he was appeasing by a baseless performance of the rites, or to Hadding, about whose death he had spoken falsely.”
• Hadding hanged himself after hearing of Hunding's death.(Book One · Part 12)
  • With: Hadding
  • “Hadding, when he heard this, wished to pay like thanks to his worshipper, and, not enduring to survive his death, hanged himself in sight of the whole people.”

Book One · Part 10

• siblings with Uffe (son of Asmund) “Then, to win the hearts of the people he had subdued, he appointed Hunding, the brother of Uffe, over the realm, that the sovereignty might seem to be maintained in the house of Asmund, and not to have passed into the hand of a stranger.”
• lord: Hadding “Then, to win the hearts of the people he had subdued, he appointed Hunding, the brother of Uffe, over the realm, that the sovereignty might seem to be maintained in the house of Asmund, and not to have passed into the hand of a stranger.”

Book One · Part 12

• friends with Hadding (Hadding's death is presented as a reciprocal response to Hunding's funeral observance.) “Hadding, when he heard this, wished to pay like thanks to his worshipper, and, not enduring to survive his death, hanged himself in sight of the whole people.”

Book Two · Part 3

• married with Thorhild (wife of Hunding) “Meantime Thorhild, wife of Hunding, King of the Swedes, possessed with a boundless hatred for her stepsons Ragnar and Thorwald, and fain to entangle them in divers perils, at last made them the king's shepherds.”

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