page_title: Hrólfr Kraki
section_title: Gróttasöngr
hierarchical_section_title: Hrólfr Kraki / Gróttasöngr
caption_attribution_description: The engraving shows the giantesses Fenja and Menja beside the mill Grótti. One giantess is sitting near the center of the frame while the other is standing by the side. In the bottom right corner there is the signature of Carl Larsson (1853-1919), the artist and a date of [18]86. In the bottom left corner there is the signature of Gunnar Forssell (1859-1903), the xylographer. The image list on page 468 in the book describes this image as "Fenja och Menja vid kvarnen Grotte".
context_page_description: Hrólfr Kraki, Hroðulf, Rolfo, Roluo, Rolf Krage was a semi-legendary Danish king who appears in both Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian tradition.
  Both traditions describe him as a Danish Scylding, the nephew of Hroðgar and the grandson of Healfdene. The consensus view is that Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian traditions describe the same people. Whereas the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf and Widsith do not go further than treating his relationship with Hroðgar and their animosity with Froda and Ingeld, the Scandinavian sources expand on his life as the king at Lejre and on his relationship with Halga, Hroðgar's brother. In Beowulf and Widsith, it is never explained how Hroðgar and Hroðulf are uncle and nephew.
context_section_description: The Gróttasöngr contains a stanza (nr 22) sung by the giantesses Fenja and Menja. It only names Yrsa and the situation that her son and brother (i.e. Hroðulf) will avenge Fródi (Froda):
  Mölum enn framar.
  Mun Yrsu sonr,
  niðr Halfdanar,
  hefna Fróða;
  sá mun hennar
  heitinn verða
  burr ok bróðir,
  vitum báðar þat.
  Let us grind on!
  Yrsa's son,
  Hálfdan's kinsman,
  will avenge Fródi:
  he will of her
  be called
  son and brother:
  we both know that.(Thorpe's translation)
  This piece cannot refer to Hrólfr Kraki's saga where Froda was the half-brother of Healfdene because this Froda was killed by Hroðgar. It can, however, be interpreted through the Skjöldunga saga in which Hroðulf's uncle Hroðgar was murdered by his half-brother Froda.
caption: Fenja and Menja at the mill
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