Rolf Kraki

[ krah-kee ]

nounScandinavian Legend.

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.

Origin of Rolf Kraki

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

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How to use Rolf Kraki in a sentence

For none of the Scandinavian sources attribute any act of injustice or usurpation to Rolf Kraki.
Beowulf | R. W. Chambers
He fell back upon a parallel between the story of the death of Rolf Kraki and the story of Finnsburg.
Beowulf | R. W. Chambers

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