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Hnæf (d. 450?), son of Hoc , was a Danish prince mentioned in the Old English poems Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment.

He was the brother of Hildeburh , wife of the Frisian lord Finn, and was killed during a Danish expedition to Frisian territory. (See Finnsburg Fragment for details.)

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