King Frodi ('The Valiant') of Denmark) FRIDLEIFSSON

479 - 548  (69 years)

• Name	Frodi ('The Valiant') of Denmark) FRIDLEIFSSON
  Prefix	King
  Birth	479	Denmark
  Gender	Male
  _FSFTID	936L-9L1
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/936L-9L1
  _HASHTAG	KING
  	Designated Royal King
  _UID	24862B7EB72B499EA9A4DC5D4718D2481BBC
  Death	548
  Person ID	I28300	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	King Fridleif FRODASSON, Of Denmark,   b. 456, Denmark d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	476	Denmark
  Family ID	F4474	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Princess Hildis (Hilda) Of The VANDALS,   b. 496, Jutland, Denmark d. 572, Hleithra, Jutland, Denmark (Age 76 years)
  Children	1. Ingjald FRODISSON,   b. Abt 501, Denmark d. Yes, date unknown   2. King Halfdan Frodasson The SKJOLDING, Of Denmark,   b. 503   d. 580 (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F12397	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  In Legend Fróði (Old Norse: Froði; Old English: Froda; Middle High German: Vruote) is the name of a number of legendary Danish kings in various texts including Beowulf, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda and his Ynglinga saga, Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, and the Grottasöngr. A Danish king by this name also appears as a minor character in the Middle High German epic Die Rabenschlacht. The name is possibly an eponym for the god Freyr. [1] Fróði the father of Ingjald, who in Beowulf is Froda the father of Ingeld and king of the Heathobards. The existence of the Heathobards has been forgotten in Norse texts and this Fróði there sometimes appears as the brother of Halfdan with the long hostility between Heathobards and Danes becoming a family feud between Halfdan and his brother Fróði. Fróði kills Halfdan and is himself slain by Halfdan's sons Helgi (Halga) and Hroar (Hrothgar). (In Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin summary to the lost Skjöldunga saga the names Fróði and Ingjald are interchanged). Saxo Grammaticus (Book 6) makes this Fróði instead to be a very late legendary king, the son of Fridleif son of Saxo's late peaceful Fróði. Saxo knows some of the story of this feud but nothing of any relationship to Halfdan. Instead Saxo relates how this Fróði was slain by Saxons and how, after a marriage alliance between his son Ingel and a Saxon princess to heal the feud, Ingel opened it again at the urging of an old warrior, just as the hero Beowulf prophesies of Ingjald in the poem Beowulf. [1] Reign Frodi "the Valiant" Fridleifsson, was a legendary king of Denmark, the fourth of that name. [3] Frode is said to have made vassals of 225 other kings, thus extending his dominions from Russia to the Rhine. Frode was beset with relatives who wished to take away his kingdom. One of these was Ubbe, who had married Frode's sister Ulfhild. While Frode was fighting wars in Russia and Ruthenia, Ubbe usurped the throne. Frode was forced to return to Denmark to reclaim his crown. He captured his brother-in-law Ubbe, took Ulfhild away from him, and wedded her to another man. [Royal Families of Medieval Scandinavia, Flanders, and Kiev][5] Gesta Danorum The Gesta Danorum describes six Frothos. [1]:Frotho I, Frotho II, Frotho III, Frotho IV, Frotho V, Frotho VI. In the Gesta Danorum there is a Frode who is son of Hadding. [6]