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	The Heroic Age: The Social Centrality of Women in Beowulf
		Wealhtheow and Hygd are both queens and, as hostesses, they both exert influence in the hall (usually thought of as a masculine enclave), influence that does not always coincide with the wishes of their husbands.
		The first section will present Wealhtheow and Hygd as hostesses, discussing their place in the structure of the court society shown in the poem, a society that focuses on the hall and the words that are spoken within the hall.
		Hygd also held at least some political power, and this is shown most clearly when she attempts to deliver the kingdom of the Geats to Beowulf following Hygelac's death on the battlefield, in effect passing over her own son, Heardred.
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		Queen Hygd, introduced in line 1925 of the poem Beowulf, is the wife of King Hygelac of Geatland.
		She pours mead in the drinking horns of the warriors thus filling (in the same vein as WealhÃ¾eow, the queen of Denmark) the important role of hostess in the poem.
		Hygd shows her wisdom and love for the Geatish people when her husband falls in the raid in Frisia against the Franks.
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	Hygd at AllExperts
		Queen Hygd, introduced in line 1925 of the poem Beowulf, is the wife of King Hygelac of Geatland.
		Hygd shows her wisdom and love for the Geatish people when her husband falls in the raid in Frisia against the Franks.
		Instead of securing the throne for her own offspring, she offers it to Beowulf as she considers her son Heardred to be too inexperienced to defend Geatland against the Swedes.
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	Writing Samples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Queen Hygd was offered to Hygelac under very similar circumstances as told in Beowulf, and portrayed the same role in Hygelac's kingdom.
		Hygd was more concerned about the future of the people of her kingdom succeeding Hygelacs death than Wealhtheow.
		Hygd offered Beowulf the kingdom because she believed it was in the best interest of the people, she loved the warriors and wished peace amongst all the people.
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	§3. "Beowulf:" Scandinavian Traditions; Personality of the Hero; Origin and Antiquity of the Poem; the Religious ...
		The virtues of Hygd, the young wife of Hygelac, are praised, and she is contrasted with Thrytho, the wife of Offa, who, in her youth, had displayed a murderous disposition (11.
		Then Beowulf hands over to Hygelac and Hygd the presents which Hrothgar and Wealhtheow had given him, and Hygelac in turn rewards him with a sword and with a large share in the kingdom (11.
		The latter, however, was soon slain by the Swedish king Onela, because he had granted asylum to his nephews, Eanmund and Eadgils, the sons of Ohthere.
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	comparison compare contrast essays - A Comparison of the Weavers of Peace in Beowulf and Grendel
		In both texts, Beowulf and Grendel, the main purpose of the Queens are to serve the courts as "weavers of peace.” In Grendel, however, Queen Wealththeow is described in much greater detail and serves a further purpose.
		Hygd offered Beowulf the kingdom because she believed it was in the best interest of the people, she loved the warriors and wished peace among all the people.
		Both texts allow the reader to gain a further understanding to the position of women in the Anglo-Saxon society by means of the development of the characters, Queen Wealhtheow and Queen Hygd.
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	Hygd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Hygd is the young queen of Geatland and the wife of its king Hygelac, in Beowulf.
		Hygd's wisdom and love for her Geatish people is shown when her husband Hygelac has fallen in the raid in Frisia against the Franks.
		Instead of securing the throne for her own offspring, she offers the throne to Beowulf as she considers her son Heardred to be too inexperienced to defend Geatland against the Swedes.
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	English: Role of Queen in Beowulf & Grendel
		She was not a Scylding, nor did she desire to be one, but she never made her unhappiness known, as described in Grendel.
		There is not great detail on Queen Hygd in Grendel, but from what the reader can gather from Beowulf, she is as much of a female role model as Queen Wealhtheow.
		Queen Hygd was unlike Wealhtheow in the way in which she did not bare many gifts.
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		On of Hygds sons was killed and one of her daughters had been killed and another son was missing.
		Hygd spat out the last of his essence and the taint left her.
		Hygd would look after the Changeling while he was in Torpor and Hygd would be tought and trained by the Changeling.
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	Alden Ranberg, Eddie Williams, Hanna Saxton, Ricky Schade, Brian Henry
		When Beowulf and his men return to the Hall of the king of the Geats, it is said that “…although Hygd… / was young, a few short years at count, / her mind was thoughtful and her manners sure” (1926-1930).
		She is the total opposite of Wealhtheow and Hygd; in fact, her story is mentioned just after Hygd is introduced; this may have been done to more openly show Hygd’s good qualities.
		The novel offers an idea of how a good queen should be, loving, kind and loyal to her king; the idea of a queen (or woman) being married off to end feuds is an accurate depiction of a queen for the time of Beowulf though it is not socially acceptable now.
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	Kid Beowulf: Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Hygd is sister to King Hygelac and wife to Ecytheow.
		An arranged marriage, Hygd never loved Ecytheow and instead began an affair with her longtime lover Horebold.
		Unable to bear children, Hygd was incensed to learn that Beowulf was Ecytheow's son and contrived a plot to kill her husband and the child.
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	SparkNotes: Beowulf: Character List
		Hygelac - Beowulf’s uncle, king of the Geats, and husband of Hygd.
		Hygd - Hygelac’s wife, the young, beautiful, and intelligent Queen of the Geats.
		Modthryth’s story is told in order to contrast her cruelty with Hygd’s gentle and reasonable behavior.
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		Hygd was very unlike the princess Thryth, to whom none
		She loved her husband dearly, and became famous for her goodness and help to Offa, who himself was endowed with much greatness in war and wisdom.
		The poet praises Beowulf for being so generous and bearing no malice towards his kin, and he remarks that Beowulf continued to be brave and never misused his power.
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	King Lear's Wife - Gordon Bottomly Poems - Poems and Poetry
		Queen HYGD, an emaciated woman, is asleep in the bed; her plenteous fl hair, veined with silver, spreads over the pillow.
		Because a woman gives herself for ever Cordeil the useless had to be conceived (Like an after-thought that deceives nobody) To keep her father from another woman.
		HYGD awakes and, after an instant's bewilderment, turns her head toward the sound; finding the bed-curtain dropt, she moves it aside a little with her fingers; she watches LEAR and GORMFLAITH for a short time, then the curtain slips from her weak grasp and she lies motionless.
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	The Role Of Queen In The Novels Beowulf and Grendel
		Queen Wealhtheow however is not the only woman in the texts who was forsaken to encourage appeasement amongst feuding courts.
		Queen Hygd was offered to Hygelac under very similar circumstances as told in Beowulf, and portrayed in Hygelac's kingdom.
		Queen Hygd was unlike Wealhtheow in the way in which she did not bear many gifts.
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	Forum—Women Refusing the Gaze
		According to Osborn (1999, 49) this queen introduces Thryth's story into the poem as she "contemplates" the actions of the "wicked" Thryth.
		Thus Thryth's "rebellion constitutes a direct confrontation with the masculine symbolic order of the poem: "Despite her beauty, Modthryth will not consent to be a feminine spectacle in a masculine arena" (Overing 1990, 104).
		Thryth's violent rebellion, then, places her less in "contrast" to such queens as Hygd or Wealhtheow, and more precisely in relation to the ethos governing warrior societies and the expression of their use of violence in the poem.
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	Beowulf and the Wills: Traces of Totemism?(Critical Essay) - Philological Quarterly - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Oferswam ??a siole??a bigong sunu Ecg??eowes, earm anhaga eft to leodum; paer him Hygd gebead hord ond rice, beagas ond bregostol.
		Then he overswam the surrounding seas, son of Ecgtheow, troubled exile, returning to his people; there was he offered by Hygd hoard and kingdom, rings and prince-seat.
		Hygd's offer sounds strange for a number of reasons.(1) I wonder, for instance, whether the early Germanic queen really had the power...
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	GoldenEssays - English - Free Essays, Free Research Papers, Free Term Papers, Free Cliff Notes, Essays, Free Book ...
		Hygd represents the characteristics of a true queen.
		Hygd wants what is best for her people and she also wants to avoid any more destruction if she can.
		Wealhtheow, Grendel's mother and Hygd are all different in many ways, but they all try to keep peace to the best of their ability.
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	Schulers Books (Beowulf - 21/101)
		Häreð (gen. Häreðes, 1982), father of Hygd, the wife of Hygelâc, 1930, 1982.
		Heardrêde, 2203, 2376), son of Hygelâc, king of the Geátas, and Hygd.
		But much later, at the time of the return of Beówulf from his expedition to Hrôðgâr, we see him married to the very young Hygd, the daughter of Häreð, 1930.
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	King of the Geats
		He conquered the Frankish people and his fame was such that Hygd, Hygelac’s widow suggested that Beowulf should become King rather than Heardred, but Beowulf chose to support the rightful heir, rather than take the throne for himself.
		Although it is not made clear in the poem, it is assumed that Beowulf married Hygd, Hygelac’s widow, but still honored Heardred’s birthright.
		It should be noted that the poet predicts Beowulf’s death at the forthcoming battle with the dragon.
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	Themes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Not only does the youthful Beowulf contrast with his aged self in the second half, but the older king Hrothgar serves as a foil for the young hero within the first part of the poem.
		Hygd, the good queen of the Geats, also serves as a foil for the malicious queen Modthrytho.
		The poet jumps quickly, almost illogically, from a description of Hygd to a description of Modthrytho in lines 1927-1962.
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	The Story of Beowulf: Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Along the walls, at intervals, were placed flaming torches which lighted the vast hall with flickering light, and the smoke from the flares and the fires on the hearths was drawn high to the roof, where it disappeared in the gloomy rafters through a hole cut at the peak.
		Around the hall stood wooden benches in tiers, one above the other, and at one end, highest of all, was the table at which Hygelac and Hygd his queen sat in their robes of state.
		For here was a Beowulf they had never known before, and they greeted him for the first time as one of themselves, and not as a sullen boy whose strength had been so great that he had been made to seem a fool for it.
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	The Role of Women in Beowulf
		She is first introduced into the story appearing very ladylike and proper: “Hygd, [Hygelac’s] queen, / was young, a few short years at court, / her mind was thoughtful and her manners sure” (1926-1928).
		Feminine characters like Wealhtheow and Hygd are respected members of the mead hall, while the extremely masculine and beastly mother of Grendel is eternally outcast.
		The domination of Wealhtheow and Hygd may not be as apparent since they did not put up the fight that Grendel’s mother does to avoid being dominated, but evidence of the “taming” of these two women is clear in the poem.
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	The Heroic Age: The Wealth They Left Us
		Beowulf publicly, then the queens Weahltheow and Hygd privately, all participate in such active and selective construction of the self by means of story.
		Having weighed Thryth's reprehensible violence while at her father's court, young Hygd has placed against it that "other" story told about Thryth by ale-drinkers (line 1945) after she is happy with the man of high reputation whom she loves (line 1954).
		Like the story of Thryth pondered by Hygd, all the stories mentioned in this study that are contemplated by people in the poem share the fact that they are ostensibly about real people who have lived earlier, perhaps personal ancestors, rather than being more abstract myths, parables or fables.
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	The Beowulf Poem - The Gold Scales
		But Beowulf overtopped them all in stature and in strength and in the speed of his running, and as Hygd beheld him she thought: This is indeed a fine son that my husband's sister was mother to, and his father Ecgtheow would have been a proud man to look on him.
		Hygelac made a speech to the fourteen earls and charged them to be faithful to Beowulf and to the tradition of the Geats in battle.
		There were carven drinking-horns for the King of Geatsland and fleecy woolens for Hygd the queen, stout shields of hide, bound with precious metal, helmets of beautiful workmanship and plumed with great wings, belts studded with gems, and many other gifts of surpassing value.
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	JiffyNotes: Beowulf: Summary: Historical Context
		Thirdly, most scholars believe that Beowulf was composed at West Mercia, off the coast of Offa the Great (King of Mercia from 757 to 796).
		One of the reasons for this supposition is that Offa’s ancestor, Offa the Angle, is specifically praised by the poet in a digression, where the poet praises Queen Hygd, Hygelac’s wife, by comparing her to the cruel queen of Offa the Angle.
		Beowulf is an epic poem, meant to be recited orally, and though its language is English, it makes mention of Englishmen only twice or thrice.
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		All of the gifts that Beowulf has received from Hrothgar are given to Hygelac and his wife, Hygd.
		The story of Modthryth, a horrible princess who has her suitors killed, is told at the very beginning of the passage after a brief introduction of Hygd, Hygelac's queen.
		Offa the Angle and his people are commented upon slightly, and the reader learns that Hygelac has recently led a battle against Ongentheow while invading his lands.
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	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Beowulf Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Hygelac and his queen Hygd welcome the warriors back home.
		The narrator compares Hygd to Offa's queenHygd is a good wife, while Offa's queen was murderous until King Offa tamed her.
		When Beowulf was younger, no one thought he would come to any good; now they praise him as a warrior and hero.
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