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Halfdan (Old Norse: Halfdan, Old English:
Healfdene,
Medieval Latin: Haldānus: "half Dane") was a late 5th and
early 6th
century legendary Danish king...
- Skjöldung
kings vary
greatly in
different texts until one
comes to Halfdan/
Healfdene. All Old
English texts call Scyld's son and
successor Beaw or some similar...
- Beowulf, it is
explained that he was the
second of four
children of King
Healfdene: he had an
older brother, Heorogar, who was king
before him; a younger...
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Danish chronicles). In both traditions, he was a Scylding, the son of
Healfdene and the
brother of Hroðgar. In Beowulf, his
relationship to Hroðulf is...
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invaded England.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,
Bagsecg and
Healfdene (Norse Hálfdan) were
joint commanders of the
Great Army that
invaded the...
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describe him as a
Danish Scylding, the
nephew of Hroðgar and the
grandson of
Healfdene. The
consensus view is that Anglo-Saxon and
Scandinavian traditions describe...
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Widsith (10th century), Hnæf
ruled the Hocings. Hoc is
called Hoc
Healfdene,
suggesting a
partly Danish ancestry.
According to the narrative, Hnæf...
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Halfdan Ragnarsson (Old Norse: Hálfdan; Old English:
Halfdene or
Healfdene; Old Irish: Albann; died 877) was a
Viking leader and a
commander of the Great...
- son of
Heremod Beowa, son of
Scyld Healfdene, son of
Beowa Heorogar, son of
Healfdene Hroðgar, son of
Healfdene Hroðulf,
probably the son of Hroðgar's...
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Helgi as Halga, his
uncle Hróarr as Hroðgar, his
grandfather Halfdan as
Healfdene and
their clan, the Skjöldungs, as the Scyldings. Moreover, some of their...
