Breca

Role: swimmer · First appears: Section VIII

In Section VIII, Beowulf calls Breca his rival. Breca is Beanstan’s child, and Beowulf tells that the two swam together “five nights full till the flood divided us,”.

Relationship record

Life events

• Beowulf tells that he and Breca swam together until the flood divided them.(Section VIII)
  • With: Beowulf
  • “Together we twain on the tides abode five nights full till the flood divided us,”

Section VIII

• rivals with Beowulf “Art thou that Beowulf, Breca's rival,”
• parent: Beanstan “Beanstan's bairn his boast achieved.”

Section IX

• rivals with Beowulf “Breca ne'er yet, not one of you pair, in the play of war such daring deed has done at all with bloody brand, -- I boast not of it! --”

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