Hildeburh
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
THE OTHER PEACE-WEAVER IN THIS BATCH, AND THE ONE THE POEM FOLLOWS TO THE END. Freawaru's marriage is predicted to fail; Hildeburh's has already failed, in front of her, and she is sent back to the side she was sent from. HER SON IS A BLOCKED ROW: he is not named, and the poem's most quoted image in the episode is his body going onto his uncle's pyre.
Relations
- spouse: FinnReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: a political marriage between Finn and the Danish princess Hildeburh. (secondary)
- sibling: HnæfReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: a visit by Hildeburh's brother Hnaef renewed the hostilities; Hildeburh lost her brother Hnaef. (secondary)
Sources
- Hildeburh is the Danish princess married to Finn of the Frisians, who loses her brother, her son and her husband in the Finnsburg fighting and is taken home.: Reference treatments of the Finnsburg episode and of Hildeburh. (secondary)