Wealhtheow

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

• Freawaru

Relations

• spouse: Hrothgar
• mother of: Freawaru

Sources

• Reference treatments of Beowulf and of the Scylding family.