 heoroweard is a character who appears in beowulf and also in norse legends, where he is named hjÃ¶rvarÃ°r or hiartuar. if he existed in real life, his name would have been proto-norse *heruwarduz. in the norse sources, hereoweard rebelled against hroÃ°ulf/hrÃ³lf kraki and killed him, but otherwise the sources vary greatly. this is an account of the differences: in the paraphrase of bjarkamÃ¡l in the gesta danorum of saxo grammaticus, his army consisted of swedes in one line and of geats in another line. this information does not appear in any other sources. several sources mention that he was married to skuld, who according to angrim's summary of the  lost skjÃ¶ldunga saga was the daughter of aÃ°ils the swedish king (called eadgils in beowulf). however, according to the chronicon lethrense and hrÃ³lf kraki's saga, she was the daughter of helgi (halga), whereas saxo is vague whether it was adils or helgi who was her father. hrÃ³lf kraki's saga does not mention where he came from, but according to arngrÃ­mur jÃ³nsson, heoroweard was the king of Ãland and according to saxo, he became hrÃ³lf's jarl in sweden, whereas in the chronicon lethrense, he was german and the jarl of skÃ¥ne. in beowulf, he is the son of heorogar, the elder brother of halga (helgi) and hroÃ°gar (hrÃ³ar). (consequently, he had greater right to the danish throne than hrÃ³lf kraki (hroÃ°ulf), and it is not surprising that he was the one who slew hrÃ³lf.) he is mentioned only once, at lines 2160-2161. beowulf, in the act of giving to his lord hygelac the armor of heorogar (which hrothgar had given to beowulf as a reward), repeats what hrothgar told him: "no sooner would heorogar give it to his son, valiant heoroweard, though he was true to him..." he did not survive long after hrÃ³lfs death. according to arngrÃ­mur jÃ³nsson's epitome of skjÃ¶ldunga saga, hrÃ³lf kraki's saga and the chronicon lethrense, he was killed shortly after. according to hrÃ³lf kraki's saga, he was killed during the battle, and according to the other sources, he became king but was killed the same day. ==succession==  according to arngrÃ­mur, hereoweard was succeeded by rÃ¶rek (called hreÃ°ric in beowulf), the cousin of hrÃ³lf's father, but he was attacked by valdar. they shared the kingdom so that rÃ¶rek kept zealand, whereas valdar took skÃ¥ne. this version does not fit bjarkimal as it relates that rÃ¶rik had been killed by hrÃ³lf. according to hrÃ³lf kraki's saga, skuld inherited the kingdom but was killed by the geatish k
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