Halga

Halga, <a href="/facts/Helgi/NgEuu89v">Helgi</a>, Helghe or Helgo was a <a href="/facts/Legendary_Danish_king/8T9I0SlN">legendary Danish king</a> living in the early 6th century. His name would in his own language (<a href="/facts/Proto-Norse/d3I2VWdA">Proto-Norse</a>) have been *Hailaga (dedicated to the gods). 
Scholars generally agree that he appears in both <a href="/facts/Anglo-Saxons/qWLes0LP">Anglo-Saxon</a> (<a href="/facts/Beowulf/RH8v7yW6">Beowulf</a>) and Scandinavian tradition (<a href="/facts/Norse_saga/49wawMXk">Norse sagas</a> and Danish chronicles). In both traditions, he was a <a href="/facts/Scylding/Y2MQU0Ys">Scylding</a>, the son of <a href="/facts/Healfdene/7qppsdRW">Healfdene</a> and the brother of <a href="/facts/Hro%25C3%25B0gar/6Ed0ajSI">Hroðgar</a>. In Beowulf, his relationship to <a href="/facts/Hro%25C3%25B0ulf/kbdjt72c">Hroðulf</a> is not explained, but if he was not his father, as in the Scandinavian tradition, he was at least his uncle. Both traditions also mention his family's feud with <a href="/facts/Froda/r6l7cSNG">Froda</a> and <a href="/facts/Ingeld/zAQvlHXP">Ingeld</a>. 
Whereas, not much is said about Halga in Anglo-Saxon sources, much more is said in Scandinavian ones. It is also noticed a curb in Halga storyline's direction, all of them containing a version of the story of his incestuous relationship with his own daughter <a href="/facts/Yrsa/cFLIgued">Yrsa</a>. This liaison resulted in Halga's son <a href="/facts/Hro%25C3%25B0ulf/kbdjt72c">Hroðulf</a>.

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