Swerting

A Swerting of the same timeframe also appears in Scandinavian traditions as the killer of a Danish king named Fróði/Frotho, who corresponds to Froda, the Heaðobard, in Beowulf.

There is also a second version in Gesta Danorum, concerning the adventures of Starkad, and which is based on the old warrior who restarted the conflict between the Heaðobards and the Danes.

[2] The Danish king Frotho (Froda) was killed through treachery by a Saxon named Swerting (Swertingus) (cf.

Frotho's son Ingellus (Ingeld) lived a wanton life and married one of Swerting's daughters.

Name spellings are derived from Oliver Elton's 1905 translation, The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, via Wikisource.