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Beaw (Bjaf) - Beowa - (of Norse myth) (son of Sceldwa (Skjold) - Scealdea - (of Norse myth))230 died date unknown in Y230.

 Includes NotesNotes for Beaw (Bjaf) - Beowa - (of Norse myth):
[15feb06abernethy.ged]

All Old English texts call Scyld's son and successor Beaw or some simil ar name. (The name was expanded to Beowulf in the poem Beowulf, probabl y in error by a scribe who thought it was an abbreviation for the name o f the poem's hero who is quite a different person.) Halfdan (Old Norse s ources) or Healfdene (Beowulf) or Haldan (Danish Latin sources), meanin g "half dane", seems to be the direct son of Beaw. However only Scyld/S kjöld, Beaw and Heremod are certainly known elsewhere, though Hwala or G wala is possibly the Ecgwela who appears in connection with Heremod in B eowulf in the phrase "offspring of Ecgwela", apparently a kenning for D anes. Scandinavian sources that mention both Skjöld and Halfdan make no m ention of Beaw (save, as we shall see, for a genealogy in the Prologue t o Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda which is taken from English traditions) . There are other differing accounts. The names, number and order of le gendary Danish kings are very inconsistent in extant texts and it would a ppear that different writers and story tellers differently arranged wha t tales of legendary Danish kings they knew in whatever order seemed be st to them.

While some differences between the genealogies are obviously simple omi ssions, others are more complex. It is possible that the name of Beaw m ay be a variant of beow, “barley”, and that in part these figures deriv e from rustic folklore about King Sheaf and his son Barley into which t he Shield element has intruded, like in the Abingdon chronicle. Perhaps a m isunderstanding of Scyld Scefing as Scyld the Scefing instead of Scyld o f the Sheaf led to the boat story being transferred to Scyld's supposed f ather Sceaf when he became misunderstood as the true first king in the d ynasty. There may be confusion between Danish traditions about Scyld/Sk jöld and Anglic traditions about Sceaf. There is the possibility that B edwig son of Sceaf is a corruption of Beaw son of Scyld. Scholars disag ree.

In all accounts, Halfdan is father of Helgi and Hróar (Halga and Hrothg ar in Beowulf). Helgi is father of the famous Hrólf Kraki (called Hroth ulf in Beowulf). In Beowulf, another son of Healfdene/Halfdan named Heo rogar is father of Heoroweard, who corresponds to Hjörvard in the Old N orse accounts, where his parentage is not told. The Old Norse accounts m ake Hjörvard to be the husband of Hrólf's sister and tell how Hjörvard r ebelled against King Hrólf and burned him in his hall. But Hjörvard was h imself soon slain and with him the rule of the Skjöldung dynasty ended.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, furthermore, Sceaf was born in N oah's ark, a non-Biblical son of Noah, and the account continues with t he ancestry of Noah up to Adam as found in Genesis. It may be that a Ch ristian scribe misunderstood a variant account in which Sceaf floated t o shore in a chest or ark. WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY in his Gesta Regum Ang lorum (1125) combines both versions making Scyld son of Sceaf and Sceaf s on of Heremod, but then traces Heremod's ancestry up to Strephius, son o f Noah, born in the Ark, who is obviously Sceaf appearing a second time w ith corrupt name. Asser, a Welsh monk who became Bishop of Sherborne in t he 890s, in his Life of Alfred (English - Latin) repeats the listing of t he Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for this section of his genealogy except that h e replaces Sceaf altogether with the name Seth and mentions nothing abo ut him being born in the Ark. Some modern translations emend Seth to Sh em who was son of Noah in the Genesis account. According to other theor ies, Scef/Sheaf is nothing else than another version of “Japhet”. See B ibliography for further reading.

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# ID: I02318
# Name: BEAW
# Sex: M
# ALIA: /BEDWA/

Father: SCEALDWEA

Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown

Children

1. Has Children TAETWA

source:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=updike&id=I02318

added:
1feb2006

Children of Beaw (Bjaf) - Beowa - (of Norse myth) are:
  1. +Tætwa - Tecti - Taewa (of Norse myth), d. date unknown, Y230.
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