Hoc (Beowulf)
Hoc , father of Hnæf , was a Danish king in the fifth century according to the Old English epic Beowulf and the Finnsburg fragment .
Hoc and Hnæf cannot be proven outside of literary sources, so they could be mythological figures. However, scholars such as JRR Tolkien consider the Finnsburg saga to be a story based on historical events.
In 1976, the historian Hans Jänichen discussed a comparison of the father-son relationship between Hoc and Hnæf (which, in addition to the heroic poem Beowulf and the Finnsburg fragment, also appear in the Old English poem Widsith ) with the historically documented Alemannic Duke Huoching and his son Hnabi . They could have been the inspiration for a later Germanic heroic poem about Hoc and Hnaef. Jänichen followed an earlier consideration from 1849, which John Mitchell Kemble made in his "History of the Saxons" in England.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ JRR Tolkien: Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1983.
- ^ John Mitchell Kemble: History of the Saxons in England. New edition 1876; German by Heinrich Bernhard Christian Brandes, Leipzig 1853, p. 419, p. 419
- ↑ Hans Jänichen: The Alemannic princes Nebi and Berthold and their relationships with the monasteries of St. Gallen and Reichenau, sheets for German national history (1976), pp. 30-40
literature
- Karl Reich: Finnsbur member. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 9, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 3-11-014642-8 , pp. 109-112. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)