Frowin
Family: Danes · Role: warrior · First appears: Book Four · Part 6
In Book Four · Part 6, Frowin had two sons, Ket and Wig, and a daughter whom Uffe married. In Book Four · Part 7, Athisl defeated and slew Frowin at Sleswik; later, Athisl claimed that he alone had killed him in mutual combat. Wermund raised Frowin’s sons to honours equal to their father’s, in remembrance of his friend, who had died for the country.
Relationship record
Life events
- Athisl defeated Frowin in battle and slew him.(Book Four · Part 7 · 📍 Sleswik)
- With: Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig)
- “The end was that, though the blows rained thick on either side, Athisl prevailed and overthrew Frowin, and won a public victory as well as a duel”
- Wermund raised Frowin’s sons to honours equal to their father’s.(Book Four · Part 7)
- With: Wermund
- “Wermund raised the sons of Frowin to honours of the same rank as their father's”
- Athisl said he alone had slain Frowin in mutual combat.(Book Four · Part 9)
- With: Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig)
- “Athisl answered that it was idle to credit others with the death of Frowin, which he, and he alone, had accomplished in mutual combat.”
Book Four · Part 6
- child: Ket “Frowin had two sons, Ket and Wig, who were youths of most brilliant parts, and their excellence, not less than that of Frowin, Wermund destined to the future advantage of his son.”
- child: Wig “Frowin had two sons, Ket and Wig, who were youths of most brilliant parts, and their excellence, not less than that of Frowin, Wermund destined to the future advantage of his son.”
- younger kin: 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; thinking that by his alliance with so famous a man Uffe would receive help which would serve him well in administering the realm.”
Book Four · Part 7
- enemies with Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) “Athisl prevailed and overthrew Frowin, and won a public victory as well as a duel, breaking up and shattering the Danish ranks in all directions.”
- friends with Wermund “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.”
- child: Ket “Ket, the son of Frowin, sent Folk, his chief officer, to take this news to Wermund, who then chanced to be in his house Jellinge.”
Book Four · Part 9
- enemies with Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) (Athisl boasts of slaying Frowin.) “After this Athisl fled back to Sweden, still wantonly bragging of the slaughter of Frowin, and constantly boasting the memory of his exploit with prolix recital of his deeds;”
- child: Ket (Their father is identified in the surrounding passage as Frowin.) “This naturally much angered Ket and Wig, and they swore a vow to unite in avenging their father.”
- child: Wig (Their father is identified in the surrounding passage as Frowin.) “This naturally much angered Ket and Wig, and they swore a vow to unite in avenging their father.”
Book Four · Part 10
- child: Ket “they cut off his head, slung his body on a horse, took it out of the wood, and handed it over to the dwellers in a village near, announcing that the sons of Frowin had taken vengeance upon Athisl, King of the Swedes, for the slaying of their father.”
- child: Wig “they cut off his head, slung his body on a horse, took it out of the wood, and handed it over to the dwellers in a village near, announcing that the sons of Frowin had taken vengeance upon Athisl, King of the Swedes, for the slaying of their father.”
- enemies with Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) “they cut off his head, slung his body on a horse, took it out of the wood, and handed it over to the dwellers in a village near, announcing that the sons of Frowin had taken vengeance upon Athisl, King of the Swedes, for the slaying of their father.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.