What is the name of Hrothgar's daughter in Beowulf?

Freawaru is Hrothgar’s daughter in Beowulf.

She appears after Beowulf returns to Geatland and recounts his experiences to King Hygelac. Freawaru is described as a peace-weaver: Hrothgar arranges her marriage to Ingeld, king of the Heaðobards, in an attempt to end a feud between the Heaðobards and the Danes.

The marriage is politically fragile because Ingeld’s father, Froda, has been killed by the Danes. Beowulf predicts that an old warrior will remind the Heaðobards of their lost kin and urge renewed vengeance. The marriage therefore illustrates how an aristocratic woman’s marriage could be used to create peace while also exposing her to the danger of unresolved blood-feud.

Freawaru has no speaking role and is not a central action figure. She is also easy to confuse with Wealhtheow, Hrothgar’s queen, or Hildeburh, the Frisian woman whose tragedy is sung in the Finn episode. The poem does not make entirely clear whether Freawaru is Wealhtheow’s daughter or Hrothgar’s child from an earlier marriage.