1. Freawaru, daughter of Hrothgar the Dane.
2. Ingeld, son of Froda, King of the Heathobards.
3. Froda, King of the Heathobards.
4. A Heathobard warrior.
5. Son of the Danish warrior who had killed Froda.
The Heathobards were a people in Zealand. There had been an ancient
feud between the Danes and the Heathobards in which Froda had been
killed by a Danish warrior. Hrothgar hoped to appease the feud by
the marriage of his daughter Freawaru to Ingeld. Unluckily, the son
of the Danish warrior who had killed Froda accompanied Freawaru to
Ingeld's Court. Then an old Heathobard warrior notices this and stirs
up strife. The marriage fails in its object, and war breaks out again
between the Danes and the Heathobards. Beowulf predicts the course
of events in his speech to Hygelac (Chapters XXVIII. and XXIX.).