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The Story of Beowulf, Translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English Prose

Note 46 — II The Story

Ernest J. B. (Ernest John Brigham) Kirtlan translation

Thrytho is referred to as a foil to Hygd. Thrytho was as bad a woman as Hygd was good. She was a woman of a wild and passionate disposition. She became the Queen of King Offa, and it seems to have been a case of the ‘taming of the shrew.’ Offa appears to have been her second husband. See below. ↑

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