Hildeburh
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · mortal
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.
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- Reference treatments of the Finnsburg episode and of Hildeburh.