Handwan

Role: king · First appears: Book One · Part 6

Life events

Hadding captured Handwan and allowed him to ransom his life with gold.(Book One · Part 6 · 📍 Duna)
- With: Hadding
- “He attacked and captured Handwan, but suffered him to redeem his life with gold for ransom.”
Frode’s forces entered Handwan’s city by stealth and despoiled it.(Book Two · Part 2 · 📍 city of Handwan)
- With: Frode (son of Hadding)
- “Thus the sentries were eluded and the city despoiled while it was buried in sleep; so that it paid for its heedlessness with destruction”
Handwan drowned his royal wealth at sea rather than let it enrich his enemy.(Book Two · Part 2)
- “Handwan, seeing that the fortunes of his country were lost and overthrown, put all his royal wealth on shipboard and drowned it in the sea”
Handwan’s response to Frode’s marriage proposal won him as a son-in-law and preserved his realm’s freedom.(Book Two · Part 2)
- With: Frode (son of Hadding)
- “The courtliness of this saying not only won him his conqueror for son-in-law, but saved the freedom of his realm.”

enemies with Hadding “So he assailed Handwan, king of the Hellespont, who was entrenched behind an impregnable defence of wall in his city Duna, and withstood him not in the field, but with battlements.”

enemies with Frode (son of Hadding) “Frode, when he had taken this town, aspired to the Empire of the East, and attacked the city of Handwan.”
younger kin: Frode (son of Hadding) “The courtliness of this saying not only won him his conqueror for son-in-law, but saved the freedom of his realm.”
enemies with Hadding “This king, warned by Hadding's having once fired his town, accordingly cleared the tame birds out of all his houses, to save himself from the peril of like punishment.”

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