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3060: 32: 497:(Book 7) of two brother kings named Harold and Fróði in which the envious Fróði has his brother Harold killed by treachery. Harold leaves two sons behind named Harald and Halfdan, and the story of their vengeance on their uncle Fróði for killing their father Harald is almost identical to that found in Norse texts about Hróar and Helgi's vengeance on their uncle Fróði for killing their father Halfdan. 468:, the enemy of Onela. Onela appears in Norse texts as Áli. Accordingly, many editors and translators prefer to simply note that the line is corrupt. But modern commentary sometimes refers to the marriage of Onela and Yrsa without indicating that this exists only through somewhat dubious conjectural emendation. 140: 509:
As to this second Halfdan, Saxo has much to say about him, including his slaying of Siward king of Sweden and his battles against Erik son of his uncle Fróði by Signe, this Erik now the rightful king of Sweden. After many battles Halfdan gained the upper hand, Erik was bound with chains and left in a
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gives Halfdan (in this work also son of a king named Fróði) a brother named Fridleif and says both were great warriors but that Halfdan was the better of the two. This might have been a lead-in to a feud between the brothers if Snorri had been dealing with Danish matters rather than Swedish matters.
251:(Book 2), Halfdan had two brothers named Ro and Skat who also sought the throne. Both were killed by Halfdan. Saxo adds that his brothers' supporters were hanged and that Halfdan continued to reign with great cruelty, but that he reigned long and died peaceably in extreme old age. 411:, a battle-Scylfing. It is likely enough that at some time in copying the poem a scribe was unable to make out the exact spelling of these names and so left the text blank at that point to be fixed up later. It was never fixed up and so the names were lost in later copies. 327:, Fróði brother of Halfdan is ruler of a separate kingdom. Halfdan was calm and good-natured but Fróði was cruel and vicious. Fróði attacked Halfdan's hall by night and burned it. Halfdan was killed in the battle and Fróði took over his country and his widow. 334:
of a feud between the Danes and Heathobards in which Fróda king of the Heathobards was slain appears in Norse texts as a family feud in which Halfdan's brother Fróði kills Halfdan and Halfdan's sons kill Fróði.
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wild place for beasts to consume, and Halfdan became king of both Denmark and Sweden. Saxo relates further warlike exploits. Finally, this Halfdan died childless and left his kingdom to his friend King
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Surviving Scandinavian texts know nothing about Heorogar though they speak much of the other two sons. Two sources also mention Halfdan's daughter. According to the Latin epitome of the
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It is likely that more than one Halfdan has been confused with one another and with other kings, not to speak of simple invention by story tellers.
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There is obviously something wrong with line 62. A name of a daughter has dropped out, a daughter who was the wife of someone whose name ends in
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Froda is father of a son named Ingeld, it is usually considered that the names have accidentally been interchanged in the tradition behind the
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the younger brother, here a half-brother, is named Ingjalldus and this Ingjalldus is later father of a son named Frothi. Since in
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is in no way connected with Sweden so far as is told. Since the only certain Swedish (Scylfing) royal name ending in
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in many accounts, noted mainly as the father to the two kings who succeeded him in the rule of Denmark, kings named
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But eventually Halfdan's sons in turn killed Fróði to avenge their father's death. Thus the tradition in
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who becomes Fróði the slayer of Halfdan in other Norse traditions which do not make his end peaceful.
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If the tradition of Halfdan/Healfdene being slain by Fróði/Froda is an old one, it might be that the
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of Sweden. This assumes great shifting of names and roles, since Adils is the Eadgils of
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indeed says that some call Halfdan's son Ro (that is Róar/Hrothgar) Halfdan instead.
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against the rebelling thrall Tunni. This may be Froda the Heathobard of
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Anthropomorphic wooden cult figurines of Central and Northern Europe
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poet knew that tale and that Heorogar (Healfdene's eldest son in
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people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic legend
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Snorri here only tells us that Halfdan attacked King
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