Heoroweard (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Heoroweard is a character who appears in Beowulf and also in Norse legends, where he is named Hjorvaror or Hiartuar. If he existed in real life, his name would have been Proto-Norse *Heruwarduz. In the Norse sources, Hereoweard rebelled against Hrooulf/Hrolf Kraki and killed him, but otherwise the sources vary greatly. This is an account of the differences: In the paraphrase of Bjarkamal in the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus, his army consisted of Swedes in one line and of Geats in another line. This information does not appear in any other sources. Several sources mention that he was married to Skuld, who according to Angrim's summary of the lost Skjoldunga saga was the daughter of Aoils the Swedish king (called Eadgils in Beowulf). However, according to the Chronicon Lethrense and Hrolf Kraki's saga, she was the daughter of Helgi (Halga), whereas Saxo is vague whether it was Adils or Helgi who was her father.