What is welthow's role in herot?

Question

Beowulf

Answer 1

She doesn’t have a very important role.

She is just a courteous queen, who attempts, fruitlessly it seems, to keep peace between her sons Hrethric and Hrothmund and the current co-king Hrothwulf, who is their cousin. She may have been more important in other stories that have not come down to us.