Breca (sometimes spelled Breoca or Brecca) was a Bronding who, according to the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, was Beowulf's childhood friend. Breca defeated...
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The Brondings were a Germanic tribe. They and Breca the Bronding are mentioned in Beowulf (Th. 1047; B. 521.), as Beowulf's childhood friend, and in Widsith...
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childhood friend was Breca the Bronding "supposed to be the inhabitants of the island Brännö, lying off the coast of West Gothland in the Cattegat". This would...
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relates that Breca the Bronding was the childhood friend of the hero Beowulf and Widsith tells that Breca later was the lord of the Brondings. Brännö is...
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Banstan – the father of Breca. Beow or Beowulf – an early Danish king and the son of Scyld, but not the same character as the hero of the poem Beowulf...
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Gothenburg archipelago (category Islands on the Swedish West Coast)
location for fairs in the Laxdæla saga, and it is also considered to be the likely location of Breca and the Brondings of the Anglo-Saxon poems Widsith...
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only appearing in Widsith with no further information are excluded from the list. Gillespie 1973, p. 6. Paff 1959, p. 23. Paff 1959, p. 18. Gillespie...
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Familjebok. Vol. 1 (2 ed.). p. 349. Byock, Jesse (1990). The Saga of the Volsungs, The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University...
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