peter hayden dinklage was the actor who played eomer in lord of the rings.
peter hayden dinklage was the actor who played eomer in lord of the rings.
actor who plays eomer in lord of the rings?
peter hayden dinklage
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the pedigree given the kings of mercia traces their family from wihtlæg, who is made son ("anglo-saxon chronicle"), grandson (anglian collection) or great-grandson ("historia brittonum") of woden. his descendants are frequently viewed as legendary kings of the angles, but as wiglek, he is transformed into a kings of denmark, the rival of amleth (hamlet), in the 12th century "gesta danorum" of saxo grammaticus, perhaps as a fusion bringing together the mercian wihtlæg with the wiglaf of "beowulf". the next two generations of the mercian pedigree, wermund and uffa, are likewise made danish rulers by saxo, as does his contemporary sven aggesen's "brevis historia regum dacie", wermund here being son of king froði "hin frökni". the second of these, uffa, as offa of angel, is known independently from "beowulf", "widsith" and "vitae duorum offarum". at this point the danish pedigrees diverge from the anglo-saxon tradition, making him father of danish king dan. "beowulf" makes offa father of eomer, while in the anglo-saxon genealogies he is eomer's grandfather, via an intermediate named angeltheow, angelgeot, or perhaps ongengeat (the origon of "historia brittonum" being an apparent misreading of "ongon-"). eliason has suggested that this insertion derives from a byname of eomer, according to "beowulf" the son of a marriage between and angel and a geat, but the name may represent an attempt to interpolate the heroic swedish king ongenþeow who appears independently in "beowulf" and "widsith" and in turn is sometimes linked with the earliest historical danish king, ongendus, named in alcuin's 8th-century "vita willibrordi archiepiscopi traiectensis". eomer, offa's son or grandson, is then made father of icel, the legendary eponymous ancestor of the icling dynasty that founded the mercian state, except in the surviving version of "historia brittonum", which skips over not only icel but cnebba, cynwald, and creoda, jumping straight to pybba, whose son penda is the first documented as king, and who along with his 12 brothers gave rise to multiple lines that would succeed to the throne of mercia through the end of the 8th century.
anglo-saxon royal genealogies