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- • Giselher
- • Gunther
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- • Kriemhild
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- • Rüdiger
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Skiold (Scyld)
The legendary founder of the royal dynasty in Denmark, known as the Skioldungs. There are several variant spellings. Skiold could be spelt Skjold, Skjöld or Skjöldr in the Old Norse. In Latin, it's Skioldus, which is found in Saxo Grammaticus' Ges...
April 2nd, 2009
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Jimmy Joe
Beowulf and the Scyldings
House of Hrethel The ScyldingsHouse of Hrethel On his mother's side, Beowulf belonged to the royal house in Geatland, which was a kingdom in southern Sweden. His maternal grandfather was King Hrethel. Note that the name of Beowulf's mother was not...
January 2nd, 2003
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Jimmy Joe
House of Skiold
The House of Skiold (Skjold) is a legendary dynasty in Denmark. Skiold was the founder of the dynasty and the eponym for the Skioldungs (Skjoldungs), his descendants. There are a number of traditions about the members of the Skioldungs, which diff...
August 27th, 1999
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Jimmy Joe
Halfdan
King of Denmark. According to the Hrolfs saga Kraka, Halfdan was brother of Frodi and father of Helgi and Hroar. His reign didn't last long, because his brother killed him. But according to the Skjoldunga saga, Frodo (Frodi) was his father, not hi...
April 2nd, 2009
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Jimmy Joe
Hrolf Kraki
King of Denmark from the House of Skjoldung. Hrolf was the son of Helgi and Yrsa. Helgi and Yrsa were actually father and daughter, but they didn't know their relationship. He was the half-brother of Skuld. Hrolf was also the father of Drifa and S...
April 2nd, 2009
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Jimmy Joe
Hrothgar
A Danish king who appeared in the Old English poem, Beowulf. Hrothgar was the son of Healfdene. Hrothgar was also the brother of Heorogar, Halga and Yrse. Hrothgar married Wealhtheow, and was the father of a daughter named Freawaru, and of two son...
January 1st, 2001
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Jimmy Joe
Beowulf
Beowulf was without doubt the greatest poem in Old English literature. The poem was written in the heroic style and it seemed to be like an elegy to the hero's feats. You may have wondered why I put a work from English literature under Norse mytho...
June 13th, 2001
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Jimmy Joe
House of Halfdan-Hrolf
Dynasty of Halfdan The dynasty of Halfdan-Helgi-Hrolf belonged to the line of the Skjoldungs. The Skjoldungs were known in the Beowulf epic as the Scyldings. The Skjoldungs were descendants of Skiold (Scyld Scefing), the founder of the dynasty of ...
February 1st, 2007
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Jimmy Joe
Beowulf
Beowulf was the Geatish hero of the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) poem titled Beowulf. The dating of the poem has become a subject of debate, because the poem survived in a single manuscript from the 11th century, yet the composition suggested a much ...
January 1st, 2001
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Jimmy Joe
Helgi (Skjoldung)
According to the Hrolfs saga Kraka, Helgi was a King of Denmark. The saga also made him the son of Halfdan, the brother of Hroar (Old English Hrothgar), and the father of Hrolf Kraki and Skuld. Of the two, Helgi was the more daring than his brothe...
April 2nd, 2009
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Jimmy Joe