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150 in marriage to Ingeld, and that the Danish king hopes thereby to terminate the feud between the two peoples (2024 ff.). Beowulf goes on to foretell that these hopes will prove vain (2067—9). That this was actually the case we learn from Wīdsīð 45—49:

Ongenþēow (nom. Ongenþēow 2486, Ongenþīo 2924, 2951, Ougenþīow 2961; gen. Ongenþēowes 2475, Ongenþēoes 1968, Ongenþīoes 2387; dat. Ongenþīo 2986), king of the Swedes, and father of Onela and Ohthere. The early strife between the Swedes and Geats, which centres round his name, is told in ll. 2472 ff., and more fully in ll. 2910—98. In retaliation for the marauding invasions of Onela and Ohthere (2475), Hæthcyn invades Sweden, and takes Ongentheow’s queen. Elan (? 62), prisoner. Ongentheow then invades the land of her captor, whom he slays, and rescues his wife; but in his hour