The Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX) on Ulfhild
The Danish History, > Book One.
relationship: Ulfhild was Hadding's daughter and wife of a private person named Guthorm
"Hadding's daughter, Ulfhild, who was wife to a certain private person called Guthorm"
attestation: Ulfhild resented her low-status marriage and tempted her husband to kill her father, preferring the title of queen to princess
"was moved either by anger at her match, or with aspirations to glory, and throwing aside all heed of daughterly love, tempted her husband to slay her father; declaring that she preferred the name of queen to that of princess"
attribution: Ulfhild lamented her marriage to a commoner as unworthy of her royal birth
"Miserable am I, whose nobleness is shadowed by an unequal yoke! Hapless am I, to whose pedigree is bound the lowliness of a peasant!"
attribution: Ulfhild urged Guthorm to seize the sceptre from her father, arguing that power won by daring surpasses inheritance
"if any pith be in thee, if valour reign in thy soul at all, if thou deem thyself fit husband for a king's daughter, wrest the sceptre from her father"
attribution: Ulfhild argued her father's old age made his overthrow natural and justified
"it is no shame to overthrow old age, which of its own weight sinks and totters to its fall"
attribution: Ulfhild preferred being a king's wife over a king's daughter
"I would rather have my husband than my father king--would rather be ranked a king's wife than daughter"
attestation: Ulfhild devised a plan to assassinate Hadding at a feast while he was distracted grooming his hair
"when the king shall be intent upon the dressing of his hair, and his hand is upon his beard and his mind upon stories; when he has parted his knotted locks, either with hairpin or disentangling comb, then let him feel the touch of the steel in his flesh"
The Danish History, > Book Two
attestation: Ulfhild tried to persuade Scot to kill Frode and seize the Danish sovereignty, but he refused
"she wore the spirit of her new husband with her design of slaying Frode and mastering the sovereignty of the Danes"
attestation: Ulfhild then turned her treachery against Scot himself, hiring assassins to kill him in his sleep
"she diverted her treachery from her brother against her lord, hiring bravoes to cut his throat while he slept"
attestation: Ulfhild reportedly gave Frode a coat impervious to steel
"Some relate that Ulfhild gave him a coat which no steel could pierce, so that when he wore it no missile's point could hurt him"