Wealhtheow

Wealhtheow, Hrothgar's queen, gives Beowulf a magnificent golden collar, which Beowulf then gives to Hygd when he gets home.

Staffordshire Hoard Carla 2009

Earlier periods suffer from the usual problem of a patchy ! evidence base, so the usual caveats apply, but it's worth noting that Wealhtheow in Beowulf presides over the victory feast alongside Hrothgar, and presumably Raedwald's queen was hardly stuck upstairs reading soap operas since she saw fit to lecture her husband about politics and win.

Horses in seventh-century England Carla 2008

Eg Wealhtheow in Beowulf, Raedwald's unnamed queen in Bede, Empress Maud, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella the 'she-wolf', Margaret of Anjou...

Old English Riddles - a thousand years of double entendre Carla 2007

THEN Hrothgar went with his hero-train, defence-of-Scyldings, forth from hall; fain would the war-lord Wealhtheow seek, couch of his queen.

Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

Comes Wealhtheow forth, under gold-crown goes where the good pair sit, uncle and nephew, true each to the other one, kindred in amity.

Beowulf 2003

Comes Wealhtheow forth, under gold-crown goes where the good pair sit, uncle and nephew, true each to the other one, kindred in amity.

Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

THEN Hrothgar went with his hero-train, defence-of-Scyldings, forth from hall; fain would the war-lord Wealhtheow seek, couch of his queen.

Beowulf 2003

Comes Wealhtheow forth, under gold-crown goes where the good pair sit, uncle and nephew, true each to the other one, kindred in amity.

Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

THEN Hrothgar went with his hero-train, defence-of-Scyldings, forth from hall; fain would the war-lord Wealhtheow seek, couch of his queen.

Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

Gratefully Wealhtheow greeted the lordly hero, and thanked him for the friendship which brought him to Denmark to risk his life against Grendel.

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race