Freawine

Freawine, Frowin or Frowinus figures as a governor of Schleswig in Gesta Danorum[1] and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as an ancestor of the kings of Wessex, but the latter source only tells that he was the son of Frithugar and the father of Wig.[2]

In the Gesta Danorum, Frowin was the father-in-law of Offa of Angel (presented as a prince and later king of Denmark), whose father king Wermund liked both Frowin and his sons Ket and Wig.[3]

Frowin was challenged to combat by the Swedish king Athisl, and killed.[4] He would later be avenged by his two sons Ket and Wig.[5] However, the two sons fought against Athisl two against one, a national disgrace that was redeemed by their brother-in-law Offa, when he killed two Saxons at the same time, in "single combat".[6] This event is referred to in Widsith as a duel against Eadgils of the Myrgings.

Notes

  1. ↑ IV 3.1.7-8, 3.3.1, 4, 3.4.1, 4, 3.12.1, 3.14.1-4, 3.15.3, 3.18.5.
  2. ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle s.a. 854.
  3. ↑ IV 3.1.7-8.
  4. ↑ IV 3.3.1, 4.
  5. ↑ IV 3.14.1-4, 3.15.3, 3.18.5.
  6. ↑ Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum IV 4.4.5-4.11.5. Cfr. Chronicon lethrense.
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