theme

One theme in Hrolf Kraki is that of the revenge between King Helgi and Queen Olof. As King Helgi discovers he would like to marry Queen Olof and as he goes to marry her he ends up getting far too drunk and makes himself look stupid and he is shaved, tarred and feathered while everyone laughs. He is then stuffed into a sack and sent back home. He then sent back out to her. He dressed as a beggar and asked her to follow him into the woods to find and claim some tressure. Where he then raped her and went back home. She ended up having his child, a daughter named Yrsa. However King Helgi never knew he had a daughter nor did he ever see her. time passed. King Helgi again went to see Queen Olof, where she then tricked him by dressing her seductively and she got his a attention and she happily went back with King Helgi where they then had a kid of there own. Fueled with rage, Queen Olof went to King Helgi's place and told Yrsa of that he was actually her father and she returned back with Queen Olof. Which plessed her greatly that she finaly got back him and that he was now alone.