Hrothulf
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
parentIds IS DELIBERATELY EMPTY. The sources say he is generally taken to be Halga's son ON THE STRENGTH OF OTHER TEXTS and that Beowulf itself does not say so. This registry records descent it is prepared to assert; Halga's record carries the claim as a relation with the qualification on it, and the descent field stays empty.
Relations
- nephew of: HrothgarIn-batch.Reference treatment: Hrothulf is Hrothgar's nephew. (secondary)
Sources
- Hrothulf is Hrothgar's nephew in Beowulf, seated beside him in Heorot, whose parentage the poem does not state.: Reference treatments of Beowulf and of the Scylding family. (secondary)