Folk

Family: Danes · Role: chief officer · First appears: Book Four · Part 7

Life events

Wermund gave Folk a gold cup to drink from and keep.(Book Four · Part 7 · 📍 Jellinge)
- With: Wermund
- “This was given him; and Wermund also bade him keep the cup, which was of gold”
Folk fought Athisl, and Athisl was wounded and fled to his ships.(Book Four · Part 7)
- With: Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig)
- “Folk and Athisl met and fought a long while together; and that the host of the Swedes, following the fate of their captain, took to flight, and Athisl also was wounded and fled from the battle to his ships.”

employer: 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.”
enemies with Athisl (slain by Ket and Wig) “For, when battle had begun, it came to pass that amidst divers charges of the troops Folk and Athisl met and fought a long while together; and that the host of the Swedes, following the fate of their captain, took to flight, and Athisl also was wounded and fled from the battle to his ships.”
benefactor: Wermund “Wermund also bade him keep the cup, which was of gold, saying that men who were weary with the heat of wayfaring found it handier to take up the water in a goblet than in the palms, and that it was better to use a cup for drinking than the hand.”

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