Finn, son of Folcwald, was a legendary Frisian lord. Folcwald is the father of Finn. He is mentioned in Widsith and in Beowulf; we reproduce a passage from Beowulf as translated by Friesland ( West Frisian: Fryslân, Dutch Friesland) is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the bigger region known He is mentioned in Widsith, in Beowulf, and in the Finnsburg Fragment. In Widsith, there is a long recital of people clans and tribes who were known in the Germanic world of the 6th century. Beowulf is an Old English Heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between The Finnesburg Fragment is a fragment of an Old English poem of the type called a leoð, or " lay. There is also a Finn mentioned in Historia Britonum. The Historia Brittonum, or The History of the Britons, is a historical work that was first written sometime shortly after AD 833 and exists in several
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. Hildeburh, introduced in l 1071 of the poem Beowulf, is the daughter of the Danish King Hoc and the wife of the Finn, King of the Frisians Hnæf (d 450 ? son of Hoc, was a Danish prince mentioned in the Old English poems Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment.
Here we reproduce a passage from Beowulf as translated by Seamus Heaney (lines 1089–1090):
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- Finn, son of Folcwald,
- should honor the Danes,
A possible reference to a lost tradition on Finn appears in Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál. Snorri Sturluson (1178 – September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian poet and politician The second part of Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda the Skáldskaparmál or "language of poetry" (c Snorri talks of the animosity between Eadgils and Onela (which also appears in Beowulf), and writes that Aðils (Eadgils) was in war with a Norwegian king named Áli (Onela). Eadgils, Adils, Aðils, Adillus, Aðísl at Uppsölum, Athisl, Athislus, Adhel was a Semi-legendary king Onela, Proto-Norse * Anula ( Diminutive with l-suffix to a name starting with * Anu-, or directly of an apellative * anuz, 'ancestor' Beowulf is an Old English Heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between Áli died in the war, and Aðils took Áli's helmet Battle-boar and his horse Raven. The Danish berserkers who had helped him win the war demanded three pounds of gold each in pay, and two pieces of armour that nothing could pierce: the helmet battle-boar and the mailcoat Finn's heritage. They also wanted the famous ring Svíagris. Aðils considered the pay outrageous and refused.
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. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar)
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