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Ongentheow (Old English:
Ongenþeow, Ongenþio, Ongendþeow; Old Norse: Angantýr) (died ca. 515) was the name of a semi-legendary
Swedish king of the house...
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Geatland (Götaland), the
Geatish king Hæþcyn was
killed by the
Swedish king
Ongenþeow. Hygelac, who
became the new king, sent
Eofor and his
brother Wulf to...
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raids against the
Geats after King
Hrethel had died. In 515,
their father Ongentheow was
killed in
battle by the Geats, and
Ohthere succeeded his
father as...
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Swedish queen, but old king
Ongenþeow saved her at a hill fort
called Hrefnesholt,
although they lost her gold.
Ongenþeow killed Hæþcyn and
besieged the...
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Onela was,
according to Beowulf, a
Swedish king, the son of
Ongentheow and the
brother of Ohthere. He
usurped the
Swedish throne, but was
killed by his...
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kidnaps the
Swedish queen, and is
killed fighting with the
Swedish king
Ongenþeow who
saved her. The
Geatish warriors s****
refuge in Hrefnesholt, where...
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synonym of Yngling, in a line on Egil, the
father of Ottar, so that
Ongentheow is
considered identical to Egil.
Likewise in the Skáldskaparmál the Scylfings...
- be the same king who
later in the
Ynglinga saga
aided the
Swedish king
Ongenþeow in
defeating the
thrall Tunni.
Because of this, Egil and his son Ottar...
- It is the poem
Widsith from the 6th or the 7th century: On line 32,
Ongentheow is
mentioned and he
reappears in the
later epic poem Beowulf,
which was...
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attack the
Geats to
neutralize his nephews, and to
avenge his
father Ongentheow, who had been
killed by the Geats.
During the
battle Heardred is killed...
