SCYLD | BEOWULF | HEALFDENE | HEOROGAR { HEOROWEARD The great- | (not of | The father | (61 and { (2162) grandfather | the story) | | 467) { | The great- | | | grandfather | +-HROTHGAR { HRETHRIC | The { (1190, | Scylding { 1837) | m. { | Wealtheow { HROTHMUND | (61 and { | 613) { FREAWARE | { (2023) +-HALGA | (youngest { HRODULF | son) (61) { (1018, 1165, | { 1182) | +-ELAN { ONELA | daughter { | presumably { | married to { | Ongentheow { OTHERE | the { ‘sister’s { EANMUND | Scylfing { sons’ to { 2929 | (62-63) { Hrothgar { | { 2929 { EADGIL | { { 239 [Sidenote: Hrothgar the great-grandson of Scyld.] The opening episode of the burial of Scyld is followed by a few lines which reveal something of the pedigree of his descendant Hrothgar the Scylding. The pedigree of Hrothgar, in true tribal fashion, makes Scyld his great-grandfather. He is ‘Hrothgar the Scylding,’ may we not say, _because_ Scyld was his great-grandfather, just as Hengist and Horsa were _Oiscings_ according to Bede, who in stating their pedigree makes _Oisc_ their great-grandfather, and just as in the Welsh surveys the gwelys still bear the great-grandfather’s name though he be long dead, because the gwely hangs together till the fourth generation. So far as it goes here is at least an indication that the nearer kindred (or gwely) might be much the same thing both in Celtic and Teutonic tribes. But Hrothgar is not described only as chieftain of his nearer kindred. Success in arms had made him head of many _winemâgas_ (blood friends) and he was surrounded by a mighty _mago-dright_ (band of kin). He had built himself a famous _folk-stede_, or hall, called ‘Heort,’ and all had gone well with him till the monster Grendel came upon the scene.