The aging King of Denmark who hosts the celebration in Heorot. He rewards Beowulf with a golden drinking horn after Grendel's defeat. Later, he confesses that Grendel was born from his own seduction by the demon. Acknowledging the curse has passed to Beowulf, he abdicates by declaring Beowulf king and deliberately leaps to his death in the sea.
Hrothgar is the Danish king who hosts and rewards Beowulf, eventually passing the throne to him.
Hrothgar and the demon share a hidden romantic and reproductive history.
Hrothgar is the biological father of the monster Grendel.
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