Hrólfr Kraki

Rolf Krake Hrólfr Kraki, Hroðulf, Rolfo, Roluo, Rolf Krage was a historically unsecured King of the Danish early period (early 6th century ). The epithet of Hrólfr, Krake, stirred by dän. Krage ( = a abgeästeter, used as a ladder tree trunk ) ago, an allusion to his powerful build.

Literary Figure

Rolf Krake is the protagonist in Icelandic and Danish heroic sagas of the 12th and the 13th century, just as it appears in Beowulf, in Widsith, Saxo Grammaticus Gesta Danorum of, the Snorri Sturluson Skáldskaparmál of, Chronicon Lethrense ( Chronicle of Lejre / Leire ) a short Danish, written in Latin of the 12th century, the Rolf Krake Sage, the Sage Skjöldunga, the Ynglinga Sage and the Sage Gautreks.