Figure
Amleth
Figure in Scandinavian romance
- Child of Horwendill and Gerutha
- Consort of Hermuthruda
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
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Family
The family of Amleth
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Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 3
Kinship in an account 3
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
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Texts
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Sources
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4 statements on this record
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- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms Hamlet Delivering a Letter Written by Himself to the Queen of Scotland, painting
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