Английская Википедия:Hrethel
Hrethel (Шаблон:Lang-ang; Шаблон:Lang-gem-x-proto[1]) is a king of the Geats.
Name
Hrethel's name appears with both the root vowel Шаблон:IPAalink and Шаблон:IPAalink and with both the consonant Шаблон:Angbr IPA (i.e. the phoneme Шаблон:IPAslink, pronounced Шаблон:IPAblink in Old English) and Шаблон:Angbr (which would ordinarily represent the phoneme Шаблон:IPAslink).[2] This is thought to be due to an early manuscript of Beowulf writing the root vowel using the early graphs Шаблон:IPAalink (for the vowel resulting from the i-mutation of Common Germanic Шаблон:IPA) and Шаблон:Angbr (for the phoneme Шаблон:IPAslink, pronounced Шаблон:IPAblink). Later scribes misread the former as Шаблон:Angbr and failed to recognise that the latter represented the sound Шаблон:IPAblink rather than Шаблон:IPAblink.[3]
The name also appears as a genitive weak noun, in the half-line "þæt is Hrǣdlan lāf" ('that is Hrǣdla's bequest'). Rendered in ordinary Late West Saxon spelling and in nominative form, this form of the name would presumably have been *Hrēðla.[4]
Role in Beowulf
Hrethel is married to a sister or daughter of Swerting (Hygelac is the nefa of Swerting) and he has three sons: Hæþcyn, Herebeald and Hygelac. He also has a daughter who marries Ecgþeow and has the son Beowulf.[5]
Hrethel fosters Beowulf (his grandson) by taking him into his royal household aged seven.[6] Fostering was a common Germanic practice and does not indicate Beowulf's father, Ecgþeow did not want to raise him; indeed, the practice was intended to further improve relations between families and family members, and create close ties of obligation, affection and shared responsibility. As an adult, Beowulf expresses his gratitude to his foster-father explicitly: Шаблон:Verse translation
Hreðel dies of grief when his oldest son Herebeald is killed by his own brother Hæþcyn in a hunting accident, a death that could not be avenged. He is succeeded by Hæþcyn.[7]
References
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, 4th rev. edn by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. liii, 469.
- ↑ R. D. Fulk, A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), p. 317 (§353.17).
- ↑ Cf. R. D. Fulk, A History of Old English Meter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), p. 317 (§353.17); Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, 4th rev. edn by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. liii, 469.
- ↑ Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, 4th rev. edn by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. lix, 472.
- ↑ Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, 4th rev. edn by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), p. 83 (lines 2428-2434).
- ↑ Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, 4th rev. edn by R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), p. lix.
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