Ket
Family: Danes · Role: son of Frowin · First appears: Book Four · Part 6
In Book Four · Part 6, Frowin had two sons, Ket and Wig, whose excellence matched their father’s. In Part 7, Ket sent his chief officer, Folk, with news to Wermund, who had raised the brothers to their father’s rank. In Part 9, Ket and Wig vowed to avenge Frowin; in Part 10, Ket wounded Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) in a duel, and Wig broke the duel’s conditions to defend his brother. Together they killed Athisl, cut off his head, and delivered his body to villagers, announcing their vengeance for their father’s death. Wermund received them with the highest honours.
Relationship record
Life events
- Ket and Wig swore to unite in avenging their father.(Book Four · Part 9)
- With: Wig
- “and they swore a vow to unite in avenging their father.”
- Athisl and Ket fought, and Ket wounded Athisl.(Book Four · Part 10)
- With: Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig)
- “But Ket received him with so sturdy a stroke of his sword, that it split the helmet and forced its way down upon the head.”
- Wig joined the duel to defend Ket, violating its appointed conditions.(Book Four · Part 10)
- With: Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) Wig
- “Wig, leaning more to personal love than to general usage, could not bear the sight, but made affection conquer shame, and attacking Athisl, chose rather to defend the weakness of his brother than to look on at it.”
- Ket and Wig killed Athisl and delivered his body to villagers.(Book Four · Part 10)
- With: Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) Wig
- “Thereupon they perceived themselves that their killing of Athisl had been more swift than glorious. Yet, not to hide the deed from the common people, 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.”
- Wermund received Ket and Wig with the highest honours for killing Athisl.(Book Four · Part 10)
Book Four · Part 6
- parent: Frowin “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.”
- siblings with 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.”
Book Four · Part 7
- parent: Frowin “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.”
- servant: Folk “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.”
- lord: Wermund “Wermund raised the sons of Frowin to honours of the same rank as their father's”
Book Four · Part 9
- siblings with Wig (Wig is the brother referred to, as Ket and Wig are the two named men in the passage.) “When Ket saw that the king regularly walked apart alone in order to train his strength, he took up his arms, and with his brother followed the king as he walked in front of them.”
- enemies with Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) (Ket and Wig confront Athisl to avenge Frowin.) “Then they said that they would take vengeance for his slaying of Frowin, especially as he avowed with so many arrogant vaunts that he alone was his slayer.”
- parent: Frowin (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
- enemies with Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) “So he engaged hotly with Athisl,”
- siblings with Wig “and attacking Athisl, chose rather to defend the weakness of his brother than to look on at it.”
- parent: Frowin “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.