Freawaru, introduced in l. 2020 of the poem Beowulf, is the daughter of King Hroðgar and Queen Wealhþeow.
Freawaru is a freoðuwebbe or peace-weaver (an important concept in the poem) who is married to Ingeld, King of the Heaðobards and son of Froda. This marriage was created as a means of ending a feud between the two kingdoms[1] (due to the murder of Froda by the Danes). It was an unsuccessful attempt to end the feud.[2] An old warrior urged the Heaðobards to revenge,[3] and Beowulf predicts to Hygelac that Ingeld will turn against his father-in-law Hroðgar.[4] In a version given in the Danish chronicle Gesta Danorum (see below), the old warrior appears as Starkad, and he succeeded in making Ingeld divorce his bride and in turning him against her family.[5]
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^The article Starkad in Nordisk familjebok (1909).
Freawaru, introduced in l. 2020 of the poem Beowulf, is the daughter of King Hroðgar and Queen Wealhþeow. Freawaru is a freoðuwebbe or peace-weaver (an...
Hygelac, he mentions that Hrothgar also had a daughter, Freawaru; it is not clear whether Freawaru was also the daughter of Wealhþeow or was born of an earlier...
Fragment ends. Fitela – a Germanic hero. Folcwalda – the father of Finn. Freawaru – the daughter of King Hroðgar and Queen Wealhþeow and wife of Ingeld,...
Danish king and is the mother of sons, Hreðric and Hroðmund, and a daughter Freawaru. The meaning of her name is disputed. One possible translation is "foreign...
misleading title). Backdating of the Gesta also by: Marijane Osborn, 'Princess Freawaru and Hamlet's Other Uncle', in: Medium Aevum 89 (2020), p. 356-373. Anders...
misleading title). Backdating of the Gesta also by Marijane Osborn, 'Princess Freawaru and Hamlet's Other Uncle', in: Medium Aevum 89 (2020), p. 356-373. Knudsen...
dragon; history and legend, including the fight at Finnsburg and the tale of Freawaru and Ingeld; and biblical tales such as the creation myth and Cain as ancestor...
mentions that Hroðgar had a daughter, Freawaru. Since Froda had been killed by the Danes, Hroðgar sent Freawaru to marry Ingeld, in an unsuccessful attempt...
the marriage of Ingeld, the son of the fallen Heaðobard king Froda, and Freawaru, the daughter of the Danish king Hroðgar. During the wedding an unnamed...
Archived from the original on 2018-06-27. Osborn, Marijane (2020). "Princess Freawaru and Hamlet's Other Uncle". Medium Aevum. 89: 356–373. Osborn, Marijane;...
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