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- "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...
- Beowulf's father. Hrothgar appears in the Anglo-Saxon epics Beowulf and Widsith, in Norse sagas and poems, and in medieval Danish chronicles. In both Anglo-Saxon...
- 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...
- Herules West Herules Lemovii (=Turcilingi?) (also probably identical with Widsith's Glommas, Glomma or Glomman was the singular form) Lugians (Longiones?)...
- 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...
- Wulfings were probably the same as the Wylfings mentioned in Widsith, and according to Widsith one of their lords was Helm. Hroðgar married Wealhþeow, a...
- 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...
- Bardengau, in Lower Saxony, Germany. They are mentioned in both Beowulf and in Widsith, where they are in conflict with the Danes. However, in the Norse tradition...
- ("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...
- Brodribb. Neidorf suggests that the tribal name ”sweordwerum” in line 61 of Widsith might be a corrupted form of this name. According to some Italian scholars...