Hrethel (Old English: Hrēðel; Proto-Germanic: *Hrōþilaz) is a king of the Geats. Hrethel's name appears with both the root vowel ⟨e⟩ and ⟨æ⟩ and with both...

information Gender Male Occupation Warrior, Monarch Family Ecgtheow (father), Hrethel (maternal grandfather), Hygelac (maternal uncle, fl. 515) Nationality Geatish...

brother Onela conducted successful raids against the Geats after King Hrethel had died. In 515, their father Ongentheow was killed in battle by the Geats...

Herebeald with an arrow in a hunting accident, which causes their father Hrethel to die from grief. Then Hæþcyn becomes king of Geatland. During the Swedish-Geatish...

grandson or stepson) Hæþcyn d. 514 or 515 (the son of Hrethel, in Beowulf) Hygelac d. 516 (the son of Hrethel, in Beowulf) Heardred d. ca 530 (the son of Hygelac...

[1]) is briefly mentioned in Beowulf, where he had a son or son-in-law, Hrethel, who was the maternal grandfather of the hero Beowulf. A Swerting of the...

Nagelring, a sword from the Vilkina saga. It is possibly the sword of Hrethel, which Hygelac gave to Beowulf (ll. 2190-94). Næġling is referenced many...

battle takes me, send back this breast-webbing that Weland fashioned and Hrethel gave me, to Lord Hygelac. Fate goes ever as fate must. (Heaney trans.)...

Beowulf gives Hygelac's genealogy: according to the poem, he was the son of Hrethel and had two brothers Herebeald and Hæþcyn, as well as an unnamed sister...

and Geat o'er the width of waters; war arose, hard battle-horror, when Hrethel died, and Ongentheow's offspring grew strife-keen, bold, nor brooked o'er...

and Geat o'er the width of waters; war arose, hard battle-horror, when Hrethel died, and Ongentheow's offspring grew strife-keen, bold, nor brooked o'er...

who stole the bats' power away from them, but their own corrupt leader Hrethel. The only way for the Hobbers to be defeated is if the bats and squirrels...

accidentally had killed his brother Herebeald with arrow, their father Hrethel died of grief because he couldn't avenge his dead son on his last son....

family trees of the Danish/Shielding's, Swedish/Ongentheow's, and Geat/Hrethel's dynasties; and a note on Old English names by Alfred David. Heorot, the...

explain much of the warm friendship between Hrothgar, king of Denmark, and Hrethel, king of Götaland, depicted in Beowulf, in the beginning of the next century...

and the second element "war chief" or "warrior". When the Geatish king Hrethel died, the sons of Ongentheow, Ohthere and his brother Onela, pillaged among...

Witton. The name Ridlington is thought to derive from the Old English for Hrethel’s people’s enclosure. The village is surrounded by land largely in arable...

Gesta Danorum, Chronicon Lethrense and the included Annales Lundenses Hrethel Old English: Hrēðel Beowulf is generally considered to be based on historic...