1. Finn, King of the North Frisians and Jutes.
2. Hoc, a Danish chieftain.
3. Hildeburh, daughter of Hoc.
4. Hnaef, son of Hoc.
5. Hengest, son of Hoc.
6. Two sons of Finn and Hildeburh.
7. Hunlafing, a Finnish warrior.
8. Guthlaf and Oslaf, two Danish warriors.
Finn abducts Hildeburh, the daughter of Hoc, the Dane. Hoc pursues the
two fugitives and is killed in the mêlée. Twenty years pass by--Hnaef
and Hengest, sons of Hoc, take up the 'vendetta.' In the fighting
Hnaef and a son of Finn and Hildeburh are slain. A peace is patched
up. Hengest, son of Hoc, is persuaded to remain as a guest of Finn for
the winter, and it is agreed that no reference shall be made by either
side to the feud between them. Then the bodies of Hnaef, Hildeburh's
brother, and of her son are burnt together on the funeral pyre, 'and
great is the mourning of Hildeburh for her son.' But Hengest is ever
brooding vengeance. The strife breaks out anew in the spring. Hengest
is killed, but two of his warriors, Guthlaf and Oslaf, break through
the enemy, return to Finn's country, and slay him and carry off
Hildeburh. 'The Fight at Finnsburgh,' which is Homeric in style, is
the account of the first invasion of Finn by Hnaef and Hengest, and
Wyatt fits it in before the Finn episode on p. 75. Möller places it
after the phrase, 'whose edge was well known to the Jutes,' on p. 79.