Information: - The Geats (, or ) (Old English: "gatas" ; Old Norse: "gautar" ; Swedish: "gotar" ), and sometimes "Goths") were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting what is now Gotaland ("land of the Geats") in southern Sweden. The name of the Geats also lives on in the Swedish provinces of Vastergotland and Ostergotland, the Western and Eastern lands of the Geats, and in many other toponyms. - The Goths were an East Germanic people, two of whose branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe. The Goths dominated a vast area, which at its peak under the Germanic king Ermanaric and his sub-king Athanaric possibly extended all the way from the Danube to the Don, and from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea. - Hthcyn (died 514 or 515) was the son of the Geatish king Hreel in "Beowulf". The hero Beowulf was his nephew. Hcyn killed his elder brother Herebeald with an arrow in a hunting accident, which caused their father Hrethel to die from grief. Then Hcyn became king of Geatland. - Herebeald was the son of the Geatish king Hreel in Beowulf . He was killed with an arrow by his brother Hcyn in a hunting accident which caused their father Hreel to die from grief . Then Hcyn became king of the Geats . The hero Beowulf was his nephew . The story is probably related to the myth of Balder 's death in Norse mythology . Herebeald would then be corresponding to Balder , Hcyn to Hor and Hreel to Odin . Hrethling After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'herebeald' exhibits the relationship of 'father'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - athanaric - hrethel
hrethel