Heremod

A FIGURE WHO EXISTS IN THE POEM ENTIRELY AS A CAUTIONARY EXAMPLE, twice, both times in a speech about what a king must not become. Killing men in your own hall is the unforgivable act in this literature, and the corpus had no record for the man who is its byword.

Relations

• held up as a warning to: Beowulf

Sources

• Reference treatments of Beowulf and of Heremod.