| 词条 | Hrethel |
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Hrethel ({{lang-ang|Hrēðel}}; {{lang-gem-x-proto|Hrōþilaz|italic=no}}[1]) is a king of the Geats in the Old English poem Beowulf. NameHrethel's name appears with both the root vowel The name also appears as a genitive weak noun, in the half-line 'þæt is Hrǣdlan lāf' ('that is Hrǣdla's bequest'). Rendered in ordinary Late West Saxon spelling and in nominative form, this form of the name would presumably have been *Hrēðla.[4] Role in BeowulfHrethel is the nephew or grandson of Swerting and he has three sons: Hæþcyn, Herebeald and Hygelac. He also has a daughter who marries Ecgþeow and has the son Beowulf.[5] Hrethel fosters Beowulf (his grandson) by taking him into his royal household aged seven.[6] Fostering was a common Anglo-Saxon practice and does not indicate Beowulf's father, Ecgþeow did not want to raise him; indeed, the practice was intended to further improve relations between families and family members, and create close ties of obligation, affection and shared responsibility. As an adult, Beowulf expresses his gratitude to his foster-father explicitly: {{Verse translation|{{lang|ang|Iċ wæs syfanwintre þā meċ sinca baldọr,frēawine folca æt mīnum fæder ġenam; hēold meċ ond hæfde Hrēðel cyning, ġēaf me sinċ ond symbẹl, sibbe ġemunde; næs iċ him tō līfe lāðra ōwihte, beorn in beorgum, þonne his bearna hwylċ, Herebeald ond Hæðcyn oððe Hyġelāc mīn.[7]}} | I was seven winters old when the lord of treasures, friend of the people, received me from my father; King Hrethel nurtured me and kept me, gave me treasure and feasting, he remembered our kinship; I was in no respect more hateful to him in his life, a child in the cities, than any of his children, Herebeald and Hæthcyn, or my lord Hygelac. }} Hreðel dies of grief when his oldest son Herebeald is killed by his own brother Hæþcyn in a hunting accident, a death that could not be avenged. He is succeeded by Hæþcyn.[8] References1. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20040612224336/http://www.sofi.se/SOFIU/lup/urnord.pdf] {{s-start}}{{s-reg | leg }}{{succession box2. ^Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, 4th rev. edn by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. liii, 469. 3. ^R. D. Fulk, A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), p. 317 (§353.17). 4. ^Cf. R. D. Fulk, A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), p. 317 (§353.17); Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, 4th rev. edn by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. liii, 469. 5. ^Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, 4th rev. edn by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. lix, 472. 6. ^Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, 4th rev. edn by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), p. 83 (lines 2428-2434). 7. ^Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, 4th rev. edn by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), p. 83 (lines 2428-2434). 8. ^Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, 4th rev. edn by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), p. lix. | title = King of the Geats | years = | before = Swerting | after = Hæþcyn }}{{end box}}{{Hrethling}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Hredel}} 3 : Characters in Beowulf|English heroic legends|Kings of the Geats |
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