Hnæf
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
The Finnsburg Fragment is fifty lines long and it is the only Old English poem that is an action scene from start to finish. The registry held nobody in it.
Relations
- sibling: HildeburhReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: Hnaef is Hildeburh's brother. (secondary)
- lord of: Hengest of FinnsburgIn-batch.Reference treatment: after Hnaef's death the Danish warrior Hengest leads the survivors and later avenges him. (secondary)
Sources
- Hnæf is Hildeburh's brother, the Danish lord killed at Finnsburg, whom Hengest afterwards avenges.: Reference treatments of the Finnsburg episode and the Finnsburg Fragment. (secondary)