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Hrethel (Old English: Hrēðel; Proto-Germanic: *Hrōþilaz) is a king of the Geats.
Hrethel's name
appears with both the root
vowel ⟨e⟩ and ⟨æ⟩ and with both...
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information Gender Male
Occupation Warrior,
Monarch Family Ecgtheow (father),
Hrethel (maternal grandfather),
Hygelac (maternal uncle, fl. 515)
Nationality Geatish...
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brother Onela conducted successful raids against the
Geats after King
Hrethel had died. In 515,
their father Ongentheow was
killed in
battle by the Geats...
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Herebeald with an
arrow in a
hunting accident,
which causes their father Hrethel to die from grief. Then Hæþcyn
becomes king of Geatland.
During the Swedish-Geatish...
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grandson or stepson) Hæþcyn d. 514 or 515 (the son of
Hrethel, in Beowulf)
Hygelac d. 516 (the son of
Hrethel, in Beowulf)
Heardred d. ca 530 (the son of Hygelac...
- [1]) is
briefly mentioned in Beowulf,
where he had a son or son-in-law,
Hrethel, who was the
maternal grandfather of the hero Beowulf. A
Swerting of the...
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battle takes me, send back this breast-webbing that
Weland fashioned and
Hrethel gave me, to Lord Hygelac. Fate goes ever as fate must. (Heaney trans.)...
- Nagelring, a
sword from the
Vilkina saga. It is
possibly the
sword of
Hrethel,
which Hygelac gave to
Beowulf (ll. 2190-94). Næġling is
referenced many...
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Beowulf gives Hygelac's genealogy:
according to the poem, he was the son of
Hrethel and had two
brothers Herebeald and Hæþcyn, as well as an
unnamed sister...
- and Geat o'er the
width of waters; war arose, hard battle-horror, when
Hrethel died, and Ongentheow's
offspring grew strife-keen, bold, nor
brooked o'er...
