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| '''Horwendill''' was a ]ary ]ish chieftain, who is the prototype for ]'s ], ]'s father. He appears in '']'' and in ]' '']'' (book 3). | |||
| The '']'' (and the included ''Annales Lundenses'') tell that the Danish king ] put Orwendel and ] as his rulers in ], and gave his daughter to Orwendel as a reward for his good services. Orwendel and the daughter had the son ] (]). The jealous Feng killed Orwendel and took his wife. | |||
| According to Saxo, Horvendill and Feng were the sons of ]'s ruler Gervendill, and succeeded him as the rulers of Jutland. On his return from a ] expedition in which he had slain Koll, king of ], Horvendill married Gerutha, the Danish king ]'s daughter, who bore him a son ]. But Feng, out of jealousy, murdered Horvendill, and persuaded Gerutha to become his wife, on the plea that he had committed the crime for no other reason than to avenge her of a husband by whom she had been hated. | |||
| Horwendill is the hero of ]'s historical novel '']''. His name also probably suggested that of Horvendile, the nemesis of Jurgen and his descendants in Cabell's '']'' series. | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| *Peter Tunstall's translation of the ''Chronicon lethrense'' at and . | |||
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