Wealhtheow
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
HER SONS ARE A BLOCKED ROW AND SHE IS NOT. Hrethric and Hrothmund are named in the poem and do nothing in it; she speaks, in public, twice, about what is to become of them. The record gives her no parentage because the poem gives her none, and the name — 'foreign servant' — is recorded as a fact and not explained, because nobody has explained it.
Children
Relations
- spouse: HrothgarReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: Hrothgar married Wealhtheow. (secondary)
- mother of: FreawaruIn-batch; Freawaru carries both parents in parentIds.Reference treatment: Hrothgar and Wealhtheow's daughter is named Freawaru. (secondary)
Sources
- Wealhtheow is Hrothgar's queen, mother of Hrethric, Hrothmund and Freawaru, and the cup-bearer whose two speeches in the hall are about the succession.: Reference treatments of Beowulf and of the Scylding family. (secondary)