Rolf Kraki

American  

[krah-kee] / ˈkrɑ ki /

noun

Scandinavian Legend.

1. a possibly historical Danish king of the 9th century, the subject of an Old Icelandic saga and in accounts by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus: involved in great battles with his stepfather, Adils of Sweden.

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Etymology

Origin of Rolf Kraki

< Old Norse Hrólfr, equivalent to hró ( thr ) fame + ( ú ) lfr wolf, cognate with Old English Hrōthwulf; kraki wretch (applied ironically)

Example Sentences

If so, we have another point of resemblance between the Saga of Rolf Kraki and the earliest version of the Beowulf story.

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So, too, was the hall of Rolf Kraki.

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Huic in regno successit filius Rolf Kraki, patria virtute pollens, occisus in Lethra, qu� tunc famosissima Regis extitit curia, nunc autem Roskildensi uicina ciuitati, inter abiectissima ferme uix colitur oppida.

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He fell back upon a parallel between the story of the death of Rolf Kraki and the story of Finnsburg.

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In the Saga of Rolf Kraki the story of Froda is still further changed.

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