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'''Fróði''' (
*The Fróði of the ''[[Grottasöngr|Grottasǫngr]]'' is said to be the son of [[Fridleif]], the son of [[Scyld|
*The Fróði who, according to ''Ynglinga saga'' and ''Gesta Danorum'', was the father of [[Halfdan]]. He would have lived in the 5th or 6th century. He appears to be the same king who later in the ''Ynglinga saga'' aided the Swedish king [[Ongenþeow]] in defeating the [[thrall]] Tunni. Because of this, Egil and his son Ottar ([[Ohthere]]) became tributaries to the Danish king.▼
*Fróði the father of Ingjald, who in ''[[Beowulf]]'' is Froda the father of [[Ingeld]] and king of the Heathobards. The existence of the [[Heathobards]] has been forgotten in Norse texts and this Fróði there sometimes appears as the brother of Halfdan with the long
*A legend from [[Ydre Municipality|Ydre]] in the [[South Swedish highlands]] tells that a king known as Frode was killed by Urkon, the same cow that created [[Sommen|Lake Sommen]].<ref name=Ydrekkoa>{{cite web |url=https://www.ydre.se/kulturfritid/sagorochsagneriydre/urkon.4.b37cf2d1210ab226ee8000119267.html |title=Urkon |website=ydre.se |publisher=Ydre kommun |access-date=April 20, 2019 |language=sv}}</ref>
The form '''Fróði''' is still in use in [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] and [[Faroese language|Faroese]] and appears Latinized as '''Frotho''' or '''Frodo'''.
▲*The Fróði who, according to ''Ynglinga saga'' and ''Gesta Danorum'', was the father of [[Halfdan]]. He would have lived in the 5th or 6th century. He appears to be the same king who later in the ''Ynglinga saga'' aided the Swedish king [[Ongenþeow]] in defeating the thrall Tunni. Because of this, Egil and his son Ottar ([[Ohthere]]) became tributaries to the Danish king.
The number of men with the name Frode in Scandinavia as of 2008: Norway (ca.) 11384,<ref>[http://www.ssb.no/cgi-bin/namesearch.pl?fornavn=Frode&etternavn=&base=mann&lang=e Name search] ssb.no {{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Denmark (ca.) 1413,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dst.dk/Statistik/Navne/HvorMange.aspx|title=Navne}}</ref> Sweden (ca.) 307.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sverigeisiffror.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/namnsok/|title=Sök på namn - Hur många heter ...?|access-date=2017-01-18|archive-date=2017-02-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210124138/http://www.sverigeisiffror.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/namnsok/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
▲*Fróði the father of Ingjald, who in ''Beowulf'' is Froda the father of Ingeld and king of the Heathobards. The existence of the [[Heathobards]] has been forgotten in Norse texts and this Fróði there sometimes appears as the brother of Halfdan with the long hositily between [[Heathobards]] and Danes becoming a family feud between Halfdan and his brother Fróði in which Fróði kills his brother Halfdan and is himself slain by Halfdan's sons [[Halga|Helgi]] (Halga) and Hroar ([[Hrothgar]]). (In [[Arngrímur Jónsson]]'s [[Latin]] summary to the lost ''[[Skjöldunga saga]]'' the names Fróði and Ingjald are interchanged). Saxo Grammaticus (Book 6) makes this Fróði instead to be a very late legendary king, the son of Fridleif son of Saxo's late peaceful Fróði. Saxo knows some of the story of this feud but nothing of any relationship to Halfdan. Instead Saxo relates how this Fróði was slain by Saxons and how, after a marriage alliance between his son Ingel and a Saxon princess to heal the feud, Ingel opened it again under urging of an old warrior, just as the hero Beowulf prophecies of Ingjald in the poem ''Beowulf''.
▲The form '''Fróði''' is still in use in [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] and [[Faroese language|Faroese]] and appears Latinized as '''Frotho''' or '''Frodo'''. This form of the name is used by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' for the [[Frodo Baggins|main character]]. Alternative Anglicizations are '''Frode''', '''Fródi''', '''Fróthi''' and '''Frodhi'''. [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]] forms is '''Frode'''. The meaning of the name is "clever, learned, wise".<ref>http://www.nordicnames.de/pojk_f/Frode.html</ref>
The ''Gesta Danorum'' describes six Frothos.
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*[[Frotho V]]
*[[Frotho VI]]
==See also==
*[[Elgfróði]]
==References==
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