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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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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...
- Nagelring, a
sword from the
Vilkina saga. It is
possibly the
sword of
Hrethel,
which Hygelac gave to
Beowulf (ll. 2190–2194). Næġling is
referenced many...
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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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information Gender Male
Occupation Warrior,
Monarch Family Ecgtheow (father),
Hrethel (maternal grandfather),
Hygelac (maternal uncle, fl. 515)
Nationality Geatish...
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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...
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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.)...
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accidentally had
killed his
brother Herebeald with arrow,
their father Hrethel died of
grief because he couldn't
avenge his dead son on his last son....
