ABSTRACT

In my essay on ‘King Hrodhgeirr and his Family’ (1897:230), I had compared the Hrethric of the Beowulf-poem with the Röricus, Hroerekr of Danish and Icelandic legend, who appears there usually with the nickname Slöngvanbaugi, Slyngeband, Slaghenback. But I had not noticed that Rolf Krake’s successor bears another name, according to an Old Icelandic genealogy: in the Langfedhgatal Hrærekr Hnavggvanbaugi is named, erroneously indicated (as in Arngrim Jonsson) as ‘Ingiallz sun’ (Langebek 1772:I, 5).