- "
Widsith" (Old English:
Wīdsīþ, "far-traveller", lit. "wide-journey"), also
known as "The Traveller's Song", is an Old
English poem of 143 lines. It survives...
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sixth century AD.
Hrothgar appears in the Anglo-Saxon
epics Beowulf and
Widsith, in
Norse sagas and poems, and in
medieval Danish chronicles. In both Anglo-Saxon...
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Names only
appearing in
Widsith with no
further information are
excluded from the list.
Gillespie 1973, p. 6. Paff 1959, p. 23. Paff 1959, p. 18. Gillespie...
- ("Swedes") and
expelled the
Heruli and took
their lands. The Old
English poems Widsith and Beowulf, as well as
works by
later Scandinavian writers (notably by...
- Heaðobards
Froda and
Ingeld on the other,
appears both in
Beowulf and in
Widsith.
Scholars generally agree that
these characters appear in both Anglo-Saxon...
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Herules West
Herules Lemovii (=Turcilingi?) (also
probably identical with
Widsith's Glommas,
Glomma or
Glomman was the
singular form)
Lugians (Longiones?)...
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legend (mentioned in the
Scandinavian sagas as well as the Anglo-Saxon
Widsith)
usually interpreted as the land of the Goths. Oddly, hreiðr can mean "bird's...
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traditions describe the same people.
Whereas the Anglo-Saxon
Beowulf and
Widsith do not go
further than
treating his
relationship with Hroðgar and their...
- are only
mentioned in the Old
English poem
Widsith. They are
mentioned as the
people of the scop
Widsith. They
appear to have been the
neighbours of...
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Ylfings (the name
means the "wolf clan") was a
powerful clan in Beowulf,
Widsith and in the
Norse sagas.
While the poet of
Beowulf does not
locate the Wulfings...
