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Wecta (Old English: Wægdæg, Old Norse: Vegdagr) is a
figure mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle and the
Historia Brittonum.
Wecta is
considered mythological...
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Witta son of
Wecta is
mentioned as a
Jutish chieftain in the 449
entry of the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle as the
father of
Wihtgils and the
grandfather of Hengest...
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Heptarchy being conditional on
descent from Woden.
Woden is made
father of
Wecta, Beldeg,
Wihtgils and
Wihtlaeg who are
given as
ancestors of the
Kings of...
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Chronicle are: Vegdagr/Wægdæg/
Wecta.
According to Snorri,
Vegdeg ruled East Saxony. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the
Wecta form of the name
heads the lineage...
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identified with
Baldur by Snorri. Seaxnēat,
patron deity of the Saxons.
Wecta,
mentioned in
multiple king-lists,
possible cognate of Vegdeg, a son of...
- See Witta, son of
Wecta for the
mythological Jutish chieftain.
Witta of Büraburg (also
known as
Albuin or Vito Albinus, a
close Latin translation of his...
- Büraburg, a
missionary and
bishop in 8th-century
Germany Witta, son of
Wecta, a
Jutish chieftain in 5th-century sub-Roman
Britain Witta (Bishop of Lichfield)...
- Bede,
Hengist and
Horsa were the sons of Wictgils, son of Witta, son of
Wecta, son of Woden. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,
which exists in nine m****cripts...
