"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...

Herules West Herules Lemovii (=Turcilingi?) (also probably identical with Widsith's Glommas, Glomma or Glomman was the singular form) Lugians (Longiones?)...

("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...

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...

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...

traditions describe the same people. Whereas the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf and Widsith do not go further than treating his relationship with Hroðgar and their...

correctly constructed modern English spelling Sheave. The Old English poem Widsith, line 32, in a listing of famous kings and their countries, has Sceafa...

Ongentheow's slayer. Ongentheow is also mentioned in passing by the earlier poem Widsith as the king of Sweden: In Ari Þorgilsson's Íslendingabók and in Historia...

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...

Procopius refers to Gautoi. The Norse Sagas know them as Gautar; Beowulf and Widsith as Gēatas. Beowulf and the Norse sagas name several Geatish kings, but...

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...

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...

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...

123 in the Anglo-Saxon poem Widsith (7th century?). Schütte's argument was that lists of heroic figures found in Widsith were reflected in the ordering...

and the father of Gundomar I, Giselher and Gunther. He is mentioned in Widsith as Gifica and as Gjúki in the eddic poem Atlakviða, where he was the father...

later. In Old English, the word wicing appears in the Anglo-Saxon poem, Widsith, probably from the 9th century. The word was not regarded as a reference...

father of Angeltheow. His name is also mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith. He has been identified with Uffo (also Uffe, Uffi of Jutland), a legendary...

riddles. In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period. Widsith, which appears in the Exeter Book of the late 10th century, gives a list...

lond Brondinga ("of the Brondings' land"). Breca is also mentioned in Widsith, an Anglo-Saxon poem (also known, usually by the translations of Benjamin...

preserved in the heroic poems Widsith and Beowulf, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. According to Anglo-Saxon legends recounted in Widsith and other sources such...

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...

Tempus. pp. 168–183. ISBN 0-7524-2503-X. Leonard Neidorf, "The Dating of Widsith and the Study of Germanic Antiquity," Neophilologus (January 2013) Tacitus...

tribe at war with the Danes. Helmings – the people of queen Wealhþeow. Widsith mentions Helm as the leader of the Wulfings. Hetware – a tribe part of...

the gold that Waldere has with him. The narrator of the Old English poem Widsith reports that he was given a ring by Guðhere when he visited the Burgundians...

generation named Angantyr also appears to be mentioned as Incgentheow in Widsith, line 115, together with his father Heiðrekr (Heathoric), half-brother...

horses of its age. One of the earliest appearances of Wudga is in the poem Widsith, lines 123-130, where he appears together with his friend Háma (Heimir):...

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...

Fredegar and Gregory of Tours), Lombards (Paul the Deacon) and Anglo-Saxons (Widsith) referred to Slavs in the Elbe-Saale region and Pomerania as "Wenden" or...

There is an even earlier mention of the tribe in the Anglo-Saxon poem Widsith: Oswin ruled the Eowans and Gefwulf the Jutes, Finn Folcwalding The Frisian...