Onela
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
HE IS ALSO THE HUSBAND OF HEALFDENE'S DAUGHTER, which joins the Danish and Swedish houses of this batch — and she is a BLOCKED row, because the treatments name her Yrse once and leave her unnamed elsewhere.
Parentage
- parent: Ongentheow
Relations
- sibling: OhthereReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: Onela was the youngest son of Ongentheow and brother of Ohthere. (secondary)
- killed: HeardredNon-symmetric. The corpus held Heardred and not the king who kills him.Reference treatment: during Onela's pursuit of his nephews into Geatland, Heardred was killed. (secondary)
- lord of: WeohstanNon-symmetric. WEOHSTAN IS WIGLAF'S FATHER AND THE CORPUS HELD BOTH OF THEM WITHOUT THE KING THEY SERVED OR THE MAN THEY KILLED FOR HIM.Reference treatment: Eanmund was killed by Onela's champion Weohstan. (secondary)
- overthrown by: EadgilsIn-batch.Reference treatment: Beowulf supports Eadgils in an invasion of Sweden in which Onela is slain. (secondary)
Sources
- Onela is the Swedish king who usurps his brother's line, kills the Geatish king Heardred, and is overthrown by his nephew Eadgils with Beowulf's backing.: Reference treatments of the Swedish wars in Beowulf and of Onela. (secondary)