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A similar story is told in the Gesta Danorum (Book 7) of two brother kings named Harold and Fródi in which the envious Fródi has his brother Harold killed by treachery. Harold leaves two sons behind named Harald and Halfdan, and the story of their vegeance on their uncle Fródi for killing their father Harald is almost identical to that found in Norse texts about Hróar and Helgi's vengeance on their uncle Fródi for killing their father Halfdan.
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According to the Chronicon Lethrense and Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum (Book 2), Halfdan had two brothers named Ro and Skat who also sought the throne. Both were killed by Halfdan. Saxo adds that his brothers' supporters were hanged and that Halfdan continued to reign with great cruelty, but that he reigned long and died peaceably in extreme old age.
The Ynglinga saga gives Halfdan (in this work also son of a king named Fródi) a brother named Fridleif and says both were great warriors but that Halfdan was the better o ...
