1) Character in Beowulf 2) English heroic legend
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Swerting (`Sguerthing`) was one of the Saxon ancestors of king Aella of Deira. He may be identical with the Swerting (Proto-Norse *Swartingaz ) briefly mentioned in Beowulf, where he had the son or son-in-law Hrethel, who was the maternal grandfather of the hero Beowulf. ==The Heaðobard tradition== A Swerting of the same timeframe also appears .....
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swerting
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