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	XVI. 1909-14. Beowulf. The Harvard Classics
		As before about Sigemund and Heremod, so now, though at greater length, about Finn and his feud, a lay is chanted or recited; and the epic poet, counting on his readers’ familiarity with the story,—a fragment of it still exists,—simply gives the headings.
		Finn, a Frisian chieftain, who nevertheless has a “castle” outside the Frisian border, marries Hildeburh, a Danish princess; and her brother, Hnæf, with many other Danes, pays Finn a visit.
		That is, Finn would govern in all honor the few Danish warriors who were left, provided, of course, that none of them tried to renew the quarrel or avenge Hnæf their fallen lord.
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	Finn (Frisian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finn, son of Folcwald, was a legendary Frisian lord.
		He was married to Hildeburh, a sister of the Danish lord Hnæf, and was killed in a fight with Hnæf's lieutenant Hengest after Hnæf was himself killed by Frisians.
		Finn is also a central character in ""Finn and Hengest"," a study by J.R.R Tolkien, edited by Alan Bliss and published posthumously in book form in 1982.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finn_(Frisian) (242 words)

	Finn, Hoc, Hildeburh, Hnaef, Hengest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hildeburh, daughter of the Danish king Hoc, is married to the Frisian king Finn.
		Finn, Hildeburh's husband, recognizes that he does not have the military strength to continue the fight and calls for a truce with Hengest and the Danes.
		Finn is killed, and Hildeburh returns to her Danish homeland bereft of brother, son, and husband.
	www.brtom.org /gr/finn.html (304 words)

	Beowulf: Finnsberg Episode / Finnsburh Fragment
		Hnæf, a prince of the Scyldings, is the brother of Hildeburh, the queen of King Finn of the Frisians.
		Finn, therefore, concluded a truce with Hengest, now leader of the surviving Danes, the terms of which are stated in ll.1105b-1106.
		Finn could afford to be generous, since his sole desire was to pacify his now unwilling guests until he could be rid of them.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/eliot/722/Finnsbrg.htm (727 words)

	Beowulf - Page 17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By war were swept, too, Finn's own liegemen, and few were left; in the parleying-place7 he could ply no longer weapon, nor war could he wage on Hengest, and rescue his remnant by right of arms from the prince's thane.
		Finn to Hengest with oath, upon honor, openly promised that woful remnant, with wise-men's aid, nobly to govern, so none of the guests by word or work should warp the treaty,8 or with malice of mind bemoan themselves as forced to follow their fee-giver's slayer, lordless men, as their lot ordained.
		[8]That is, Finn would govern in all honor the few Danish warriors who were left, provided, of course, that none of them tried to renew the quarrel or avenge Hnaef their fallen lord.
	www.normanniireiks.org /guilds_lore/lore/beowulf/beowulf17.htm (743 words)

	Frisian Kings (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Finn became acting joint-king during the minority of his younger bother Odilbald, the true heir, at a time when the Frisians were under severe pressure from migrating tribes such as the Danes.
		In 689 he was defeated in battle by the Franks under Pepin the Fat, and was forced to cede Dorestad, and the Frisian lands between the Zwin and the Old Rhine (between 690 and 692).
		In 734 the Franks under Charles Martel invaded yet again, and defeated the Frisians at the Battle of the River Boome (Middelsea), during which Poppo perished, and the Franks extended their rule over all of West Frisia as far as the Lauwers.
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	Beowulf - Chapter XVII
		Hengest still through the death-dyed winter dwelt with Finn, holding pact, yet of home he minded, though powerless his ring-decked prow to drive over the waters, now waves rolled fierce lashed by the winds, or winter locked them in icy fetters.
		On fierce-heart Finn there fell likewise, on himself at home, the horrid sword-death; for Guthlaf and Oslaf of grim attack had sorrowing told, from sea-ways landed, mourning their woes.
		The burg was reddened with blood of foemen, and Finn was slain, king amid clansmen; the queen was taken.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/epics/Beowulf/chap17.html (575 words)

	Frisians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However the Frisians were able to form a treaty with the Romans at the River Rhine in 28, avoiding conquest.
		When some of the Frisians returned in 400s there were already Saxons and Jutes settled there, and the Frisian people merged with them, maintaining the identity and traditions of the Frisian tribe.
		The Frisians were closely related to the Saxons, and the Frisian language remains the closest surviving language to English.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Frisians (1214 words)

	Finn Resources & Information - huck finn
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		Finn (Frisian) is a Frisian lord who appears in Beowulf riley finn and The Fight at Finnsburg.
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	Outline of Beowulf
		He himself, fatigued by battle, was borne by the tide to the land of the Finns.
		The gleeman sings of a feud between the Frisians and the Danes (mentioned also in "The Fight at Finnesburg") in the course of which the Danish Hnaef (mentioned in "Widsith") is killed.
		Finn, the Frisian king, loses the battle to the Danish Hengest and concludes a truce.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~atinkham/Outline_of_Beowulf.html (3113 words)

	Finn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn mac Cumhal; anglicised to Finn McCool) was a legendary warrior of Irish mythology.
		The Finn, a character in William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy
		Finn (song), a song by Tori Amos for the Great Expectations (film) soundtrack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finn (284 words)

	Beowulf
		Back [5] The exact story to which this episode refers in summary is not to be determined, but the following account of it is reasonable and has good support among scholars.
		Finn, a Frisian chieftain, who nevertheless has a "castle" outside the Frisian border, marries Hildeburh, a Danish prin cess; and her brother, Hnaef, with many other Danes, pays Finn a visit.
		Back [8] That is, Finn would govern in all honor the few Danish warriors who were left, provided, of course, that none of them tried to renew the quarrel or avenge Hnaef their fallen lord.
	www.nodeadtrees.com /etexts/beowulf/beowulf017.html (533 words)

	NovelGuide: Beowulf: Novel Summary: Line 1070-1157
		Hildeburth, a Danish princess married to Finn, the Frisian king, lost both her son and her brother in a battle at Finn’s hall with the Danes.
		Under an agreement, the remaining Danes were to be quartered at the Frisians’ hall; Finn agreed to honor the Danes with tribute, treating them as equals with the Frisians and their allies, the Jutes.
		Finn was killed and his home looted, and Hildeburh his widow was taken back to Denmark.
	www.novelguide.com /Beowulf/summaries/line1070-1157.html (212 words)

	Schulers Books (Beowulf - 21/101)
		Het-ware or Franks, in alliance with the Frisians and the Hûgas, conquer Hygelâc, king of the Geátas, 2355, 2364 ff., 2917.
		Hildeburh, daughter of Hôc, relative of the Danish leader, Hnäf, consort of the Frisian king, Finn.
		Their son is Heardrêd, 2203, 2376, 2387.--Hygelâc falls during an expedition against the Franks, Frisians, and Hûgas, 1206, 1211, 2356-59, 2916-17.
	www.schulers.com /books/epic/b/Beowulf/Beowulf21.htm (1394 words)

	FREE Barron's Booknotes-Beowulf-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes/Synopis/Chapter Notes
		Hnaf's sister is Finn's wife; she feels her husband betrayed her by attacking her brother, and for starting a battle in which both her brother and her son lost their lives.
		Hengest is torn between his desire for revenge against Finn, and his moral obligation to comply with the peace offering.
		The main characters in the Finnsburg Episode are Hildeburh-whose fate is to be torn apart by her bonds of kinship with the Finns and the Danes-and Hengest, whose code of ethics is upset by the conflict between honor and revenge.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/beowulf21.asp (822 words)

	Beowulf
		Hrothgar's scop recites another poem within the poem, this time the tale of Finn's hall (the Finnsburh or Finnsburg episode), as follows: Hildeburh, daughter of Hoc, is a Dane and queen of Frisia through her marriage to the Frisian King Finn, son of Focwald.
		Both her unnamed son and her brother, the Danish king Hnaef, are killed in a battle against the Frisians and Jutes.
		These displaced Danes agree to live with the Frisians and to serve Finn, swearing an oath of allegiance to him, and in exchange they are to receive lodging, bounty including rings, and the assurance they will be honored.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/beowulf.html (4948 words)

	Jutes - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Jutes were a Germanic people who are believed to have originated from Jutland (called Iutum in Latin) in modern Denmark and part of the Frisian coast.
		The Jutes, along with the Angles, Saxons and Frisians, were amongst the Germanic tribes who sailed across the North Sea to raid and eventually invade Great Britain from the late fourth century A.D. onwards, either displacing, absorbing or destroying the native Celtic peoples there.
		In Beowulf the Jutes appear as the Eotenas in the Finn passage (see Finnsburg Fragment), making them a people distinct from the Geatas.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Jutes (465 words)

	Finn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'''"Finn"''' may be used in several different ways:
		Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn** mac Cumhal) was a legendary warrior of Irish mythology.
		* Finn (dinghy) is an Olympic class of sailing dinghy.
	finn.mindbit.com (183 words)

	GradeSaver: E-Text of Beowulf
		As before about Sigemund and Heremod, so now, though at greater length, about Finn and his feud, a lay is chanted or recited; and the epic poet, counting on his readers' familiarity with the story, -- a fragment of it still exists, -- simply gives the headings.
		Finn, a Frisian chieftain, who nevertheless has a "castle" outside the Frisian border, marries Hildeburh, a Danish princess; and her brother, Hnaef, with many other Danes, pays Finn a visit.
		Collecting a force, they return to Frisia and kill Finn in his home.
	www.gradesaver.com /etext/titles/beowulf/section11.html (2507 words)

	Finn : search word
		* Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn mac Cumhail) was a legendary warrior of Irish mythology.
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
		In time we come to Umballa.' 'But my River - the River of my healing?' 'And then, if it please thee, we will go hunting for that.
	www.searchword.org /fi/finn.html (530 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Probably he is killed in feud; but his clansmen, Guthlaf and Oslaf, gather at their home a force of sturdy Danes, come back to Frisia, storm Finn's stronghold, kill him, and carry back their kinswoman Hildeburh.} \footnotetext[6]{ The "enemies" must be the Frisians.} \footnotetext[7]{ Battlefield.
		"Folcwald's son" is Finn.} \footnotetext[8]{ That is, Finn would govern in all honor the few Danish warriors who were left, provided, of course, that none of them tried to renew the quarrel or avenge Hnaef their fallen lord.
		Collect- ing a force, they return to Frisia and kill Finn in his home.} \footnotetext[2]{ Nephew to Hrothgar, with whom he subsequently quarrels, and elder cousin to the two young sons of Hrothgar and Wealhtheow, -- their natural guardian in the event of the king's death.
	www.mit.edu /people/jrising/resources/res/webres/beowulf2.txt (20443 words)

	Notes on Beowulf
		Hildeburh unable to prevent calamity for her family, either on Frisian or or Danish side.
		Battle between Danes and Jutes in Friesland (Frisian/Jute land) results in deaths of Hildeburh's son and her brother Hnæf, king of Danes.
		While the Danes celebrate and repair Heorot, Grendel's mother grows increasingly angry and emerges from the mere to seek revenge for the death of her son.
	www.mathcs.duq.edu /~racicot/phd/notes/beowulf.html (2684 words)

	Beowulf - Dramatis Personae, Proper Names
		Fin(n), m., king of the East Frisians; Fin, 1095, 1151; gs.
		Fréslondum, 2358; --land of the East Frisians: as.
		Hilde-burh, f., sister of Hnæf (chief of the Half-Danes), daugher of Hóc, wife of the Frisian king Finn; 1070, 1113.
	www.heorot.dk /dramatis.html (1975 words)

	Beowulf
		A poet in the hall entertains the warriors with the story of Finn, a Frisian king.
		Finn's wife, the sister of Hnaef and mother of yet another victim, is angered by the battle and pressures Finn to end the conflict.
		During a war with the Frisians, Hygelac is killed and his kingdom is offered to Beowulf.
	www.studyontheweb.com /booksummaries/beowulf.htm (3085 words)

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		Not least was that of hand-to-hand fights where Hygelac fell, when the ruler of Geats in rush of battle, lord of his folk, in the Frisian land, son of Hrethel, by sword-draughts died, by brands down-beaten.
		Ever I fought in the front of all, sole to the fore; and so shall I fight while I bide in life and this blade shall last that early and late hath loyal proved since for my doughtiness Daeghrefn fell, slain by my hand, the Hugas' champion.
		Nor fared he thence to the Frisian king with the booty back, and breast-adornments; but, slain in struggle, that standard-bearer fell, atheling brave.
	www.hypothetical.net /sillydog/text/eBooks/Anonymous/Beowulf.txt (21044 words)

	E-books - 700-799/anonymous_beowulf_543 - the best english and american e books in net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		a "castle" outside the Frisian border, marries Hildeburh, a Danish prin-
		where sons of the Frisians were sure to be.
		its edge was famed with the Frisian earls.
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	Finn Shoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn mac Cumhail) was a legendary warriorof Irish mythology.
		Finn may be a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the U.S. five dollarbill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
		A shoe is a piece of footwear for humans, less than a boot and more than a slipper.
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	Questing Spirit: Beowulf: XVI-XX
		Finn, a Frisian chieftain, who nevertheless has a "castle" outside the Frisian border, marries Hildeburh, a Danish prin- cess; and her brother, Hnaef, with many other Danes, pays Finn a visit.
		with blood of foemen, and Finn was slain,
		Collect- ing a force, they return to Frisia and kill Finn in his home.
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