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	FanFiction.Net - Dementia, a Lord of the Rings fanfic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hrethel looked like he was ready to disagree with that statement, but his younger brother cut him off before he had the chance.
		Hrethel shrugged, having yet to break his cold façade.
		Hrethel pretended not to notice, keeping his eyes fixated on the flickering lights ahead of them.
	www.fanfiction.net /s/3037481/10 (3607 words)

	SparkNotes: Beowulf: Lines 2211–2515
		On the cliff outside the barrow, Beowulf speaks to his men, recounting his youth as a ward in King Hrethel’s court.
		The tragic story of the death of Hrethel’s son at the hands of his own brother offers an echo of the earlier case of divided loyalty in the Finnsburg episode.
		Hrethel’s grief at the accident is great, but because of the peculiar circumstances surrounding his son’s death, Hrethel is locked in inaction.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/beowulf/section8.rhtml (1316 words)

	Genealogy: Beowulf and the Scyldings
		On his mother's side, Beowulf belonged to the royal house in Geatland, which is a kingdom in southern Sweden.
		Note that the name of Beowulf's mother is not given in the story, but she is the daughter of King Hrethel and sister of King Hygelac.
		On his father's side, Beowulf belonged to a lineage, known as the Wægundings, a noble house of warriors.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/beowulfhouse.html (267 words)

	NovelGuide: Beowulf: Character Profiles
		Grendel's mother kills Aeschere in the mead-hall before she is vanquished by Beowulf in her dwelling place at the bottom of a haunted lake.
		Hrethel: Hrethel was the father of King Hygelac.
		Hrethel died of grief after his son, Herebeald, was accidentally killed.
	www.novelguide.com /Beowulf/characterprofiles.html (916 words)

	CliffsNotes::Beowulf:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Beowulf recalls the kind generosity of the father and a tragic dilemma that is difficult for a modern audience to grasp.
		Although that incident is tragic in itself, the grief was exacerbated because the code required King Hrethel to seek vengeance, even against his own son and even though the death was accidental.
		In a passage that some critics find one of the finest examples of poetry in the epic, but which might slip by the casual reader, Beowulf compares Hrethel’s grief to that of a father whose son is on the gallows (2444 ff.).
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-33,pageNum-40.html (676 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Lehman, Beowulf
		Yet the hero's father was Swedish, although he marries the Geatish King Hrethel's daughter, as Hrothgar the Dane's sister is married off to the Swedish prince Onela, both princesses probably to cement friendship between warring nations.
		Hrethel takes in Beowulf, his daughter's son, when he is only seven.
		Hrethel dies of grief soon after, and Hygelac, the youngest son, succeeds, with Beowulf, his sister's son, as chief warrior.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exlehbeo.html (6292 words)

	Kid Beowulf: Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hrethel is advisor to King Hygelac and the oldest and wisest Geat.
		Trained in the mystic and healing arts, Hrethel is a big proponent of the latest medical craze...leeching.
		Hrethel gave Nagling to Yrs claiming it would one day protect her child.
	www.kidbeowulf.com /characters2.html (395 words)

	Herebeald at AllExperts
		Herebeald was the son of the Geatish king Hrethel in Beowulf.
		He was killed with an arrow by his brother Haethcyn in a hunting accident which caused their father Hrethel to die from grief.
		The story is probably related to the myth of Balder's death in norse mythology.
	en.allexperts.com /e/h/he/herebeald.htm (136 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I was seven years old when the sovran of rings, friend-of-his-folk, from my father took me, had me, and held me, Hrethel the king, with food and fee, faithful in kinship.
		For the eldest of these, by unmeet chance, by kinsman's deed, was the death-bed strewn, when Haethcyn killed him with horny bow, his own dear liege laid low with an arrow, missed the mark and his mate shot down, one brother the other, with bloody shaft.
		There was strife and struggle 'twixt Swede 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 the seas pact of peace, but pushed their hosts to harass in hatred by Hreosnabeorh.
	www.aboutrealstuff.com /books/beowulf/page-ba.htm (628 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Beowulf says that he has come because he heard that Hrothgar's men were "idle and useless," and so the Danes needed help from a Geat champion.
		Hrothgar sets matters straight by saying that the best of his men had died in attacking Grendel during the past twelve years, and that it was he who had taken in Beowulf's father when the Geats, including Hrethel, had thrown him out and refused to fight for him against the Wylfings.
		Moreover, Hrothgar has paid the price necessary to end the feud and allow Ecgtheow to return home, marry Hrethel's sister and father Beowulf.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/nelson/reading_beowulf.html (2203 words)

	Beowulf, Anonymous - Section 7 of 10 - Book Club/Poetry - ArcaMax Publishing
		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.
		For the eldest of these, by unmeet chance, by kinsman's deed, was the death-bed strewn, when Haethcyn killed him with horny bow, his own dear liege laid low with an arrow, missed the mark and his mate shot down, one brother the other, with bloody shaft.
		There was strife and struggle 'twixt Swede 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 the seas pact of peace, but pushed their hosts to harass in hatred by Hreosnabeorh.
	www.arcamax.com /cgi-bin/news/poetry/b-1057-7 (1979 words)

	Epic Beowulf essays - Epic of Beowulf Essay - The Value System in Beowulf
		They were valued highly - the treasure gained in battles improved the well being but it was more of a common factor spiritually uniting the warriors and allowing them to fully realise their potentials.
		One of his sons accidentally killed another; by code of kinship king Hrethel was forbidden to exact compensation from a kinsman, yet by the same code he was required to do one in order to avenge death.
		He was trapped in a situation without a moral way out and therefore Hrethel refused to face life any longer.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=6949 (855 words)

	The Beowulf Poet.
		Warrior prince of the Geats, son of Ecgtheow, maternal grandson of Hrethel, and maternal nephew of Hygelac.
		Vanquishes Grendel and Grendel's mother before returning home to rule for 50 years and then slay a dragon.
		Leader of the Geats; maternal grandfather of Beowulf, who was sent as a child to live with Hrethel.
	www.baymoon.com /~ariadne/poets/beowulf.poet.htm (794 words)

	RPG Archive: Role Playing Community Site and Online Adventure Database
		Although both believe deeply in the cult?s teachings, they are a constant thorn in the side of Hrethel.
		Hrethel is virtually unreachable (DC 50) for any information.
		Hurin will be difficult to deal with, especially as so far he has been bullying everyone in the town and is unafraid of many people.
	www.rpgarchive.com /index.php?page=adv1&advid=510 (7937 words)

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