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Ingeld
Ingeld (Old English) or Ingjald (Old Norse) was a legendary warrior who appears in early English and Norse legends. Ingeld was so well known that, in 797, Alcuin wrote a letter to Bishop Higbald of Lindisfarne questioning the monks' interest in heroic legends with: 'Quid enim Hinieldus cum Christo?' - What has Ingeld to do with Christ?〔Mitchell, Bruce, et al. Beowulf: An Edition with Relevant Shorter Texts. Oxford, UK: Malden Ma., 1998. p. 225〕
The legends that survive tell of Ingeld as an enemy of Hroðgar, Halga and Hroðulf. The conflict between the Scyldings Hroðgar and Hroðulf on one side, and the Heaðobards Froda and Ingeld on the other, appears both in ''Beowulf'' and in ''Widsith''. Scholars generally agree that these characters appear in both Anglo-Saxon (''Beowulf'') and Scandinavian tradition (Norse sagas and Danish chronicles).〔(Shippey, T. A.: Wicked Queens and Cousin Strategies in Beowulf and Elsewhere, Notes and Bibliography. In The Heroic Age Issue 5 Summer 2001. )〕 However, in the Norse tradition the Heaðobards had apparently been forgotten and the conflict is instead rendered as a family feud,〔(''The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf'' by Olson, 1916, at Project Gutenberg )〕 or as a conflict with the Saxons, where the Danes take the place of the Heaðobards.〔(The article ''Starkad'' in ''Nordisk familjebok'' (1909). )〕
==''Beowulf''==
In ''Beowulf'', Ingeld is the son of King Froda of the Heaðobards, and they are involved in a war with the Danes. When Beowulf reports on his adventure in Denmark to his king Hygelac, he mentions that Hroðgar had a daughter, Freawaru.〔lines 2000-2069〕 Since Froda had been killed by the Danes, Hroðgar sent Freawaru to marry Ingeld, in an unsuccessful attempt to end the feud.〔lines 2027-2028〕 An old warrior urged the Heaðobards to revenge,〔Lines 2042-2067.〕 and Beowulf predicts to Hygelac that Ingeld will turn against his father-in-law Hroðgar.〔lines 2067-2069〕 In a version given in the Danish chronicle ''Gesta Danorum'' (see below), the old warrior appears as Starkad, and he succeeded in making Ingeld divorce his bride and in turning him against her family.〔 Earlier in the ''Beowulf'' poem, the poet tells us that the hall Heorot was eventually destroyed by fire〔lines 80-85〕 (Gummere's translation〔''(Modern English translation )'' by Francis Barton Gummere〕):
It is tempting to interpret the new war with Ingeld as leading to the burning of the hall of Heorot, but the poem separates the two events (by a ''ne wæs hit lenge þā'' meaning "nor far way was that day when", in Gummere's translation).
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