Halga
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
A RECORD WHOSE ONLY CONTENT IS A NAME AND A DISPUTED FATHERHOOD, and that is exactly what the poem gives. The registry can say what the poem says and mark what it does not.
Parentage
- parent: Healfdene
Relations
- sibling: HeorogarReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: Healfdene had three sons, Heorogar, Hrothgar and Halga. (secondary)
- reputed father of: HrothulfDELIBERATELY A RELATION AND NOT parentIds ON HROTHULF. The kind carries the qualification the sources make: Beowulf does not say it and the Norse material does.Reference treatment: Hrothulf is generally taken to be Halga's son because of other sources, although his parentage is not explicit in the text of Beowulf itself. (secondary)
Sources
- Halga is Healfdene's youngest son, and is taken outside Beowulf to be the father of Hrothulf.: Reference treatments of Beowulf and of the Scylding genealogy. (secondary)