Ingeld
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
THE ONE FIGURE IN THIS BATCH WHOSE POPULARITY IS DOCUMENTED BY SOMEONE COMPLAINING ABOUT IT. Around 797 Alcuin wrote to a bishop asking what Ingeld has to do with Christ — Quid Hinieldus cum Christo? — which is the earliest evidence that anybody in England was still listening to these stories, and it survives because a churchman wanted them stopped.
Parentage
- parent: Froda
Relations
- betrothed to: FreawaruReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: a marriage alliance between Freawaru and Ingeld. (secondary)
Sources
- Ingeld is the Heathobard prince, son of Froda, betrothed to Freawaru in a peace-marriage that Beowulf predicts will fail.: Reference treatments of Beowulf and of the Froda and Ingeld feud. (secondary)