Koll (guardian of Frode)

Also known as: Koll · Family: Danes · Role: guardian of Frode · First appears: Book Five · Part 1

Life events

• Westmar and Koll were appointed to bring up Frode.(Book Five · Part 1)
  • With: Westmar Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift)
  • “So a selection was made, and the brothers Westmar and Koll were summoned to the charge of bringing up the king.”
• Frode sent Gotwar, Westmar, and Koll on an embassy to seek the Hunnish princess for him.(Book Five · Part 2)
  • With: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) Gotwar Westmar
  • “Frode also ordered that Westmar and Koll, with their sons, should be summoned to go on the same embassy, thinking that their cunning would avoid the shame of a rebuff.”
• Gotwar sent Westmar and Koll back to renew the marriage suit and challenge the king if he resisted.(Book Five · Part 2)
  • With: Gotwar Westmar
  • “Then she bade Westmar, Koll, and their sons go to the king and urge their mission afresh; and finally, should they find him froward, to anticipate a rebuff by a challenge to fight.”
• Erik tricked Koll into dropping the ice gift into the fire.(Book Five · Part 9)
  • With: Erik Shrewd-spoken
  • “But when Koll, who was the keeper of the gifts offered to the king, asked him whether he had brought any presents with him, he produced the ice which he had hidden in his breast. And when he had handed it to Koll across the hearth, he purposely let it go into the fire, as though it had slipped from the hand of the receiver.”
• Frode condemned Koll to death for losing the gift.(Book Five · Part 9)
  • With: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift)
  • “And so the king, being counselled to allow the punishment as inevitable, gave leave for Koll to be hanged.”

Book Five · Part 1

• ward: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) “So a selection was made, and the brothers Westmar and Koll were summoned to the charge of bringing up the king.”
• married with Gotwar “The wife of Koll was Gotwar, who used to paralyse the most eloquent and fluent men by her glib and extraordinary insolence;”
• siblings with Westmar “So a selection was made, and the brothers Westmar and Koll were summoned to the charge of bringing up the king.”

Book Five · Part 2

• lord: Frode (son of Fridleif the Swift) “Frode also ordered that Westmar and Koll, with their sons, should be summoned to go on the same embassy, thinking that their cunning would avoid the shame of a rebuff.”

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