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    king Herirīcus, his daughter Hiltgunt; and Alphere, his son Waltharius. Hagano and Waltharius became brothers in arms, fighting at the head of Attila's...
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    Gunther (section Waltharius)
    significantly, he plays a role in the German Nibelungenlied, the medieval Latin Waltharius, and the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Völsunga saga. He also plays an important...
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    earliest probable surviving mention of the name is in the Latin poem Waltharius, believed to have been composed around the year 920. In lines 555–6 of...
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    in a number of languages in the spelling Valter. The Latinized form is Waltharius, the title of a poem of the late 9th or early 10th century on the legendary...
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    fragment of an Old English epic of which just over sixty lines survive. Waltharius, a 10th-century Latin epic written by the monk Ekkehard I of St Gall....
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    first literary mention of nailed horseshoes is found within Ekkehard's Waltharius, written c. 920 AD. The practice of shoeing horses in Europe likely originated...
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    Beowulf (Old English) Waldere, Old English version of the story told in Waltharius (below), known only as a brief fragment Alpamysh, a Turkic epic Karolus...
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    location missing publisher (link) Langosch, Karl (translator), ed. (1960), Waltharius, Ruodlieb, Märchenepen. Lateinische Epik des Mittelalters mit deutschen...
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    saga. Wayland is known by the name Wieland in line 965 of the Latin epic Waltharius, a literary composition based on Old High German oral tradition, as the...
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  • Walthari (also Waltheri, Latin: Waltharius) son of Wacho from his third wife Silinga, was a king of the Lombards from 539 to 546. He was an infant king...
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  • Berengarii und Waltharius-Epos, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, 58, 2002, pp. 205-211. B. K. Vollmann, Gesta Berengarii und Waltharius-Epos,...
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    Tristan, Gottfried von Strassburg Troilus and Criseyde, Geoffrey Chaucer Waltharius Younger Edda, Snorri Sturluson Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, Chrétien...
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    heroic epics also seems to have been prompted by ecclesiastics, such as Waltharius, possibly Beowulf, and the Nibelungenlied, which was probably written...
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    Historia Langobardorum, the Liber Pontificalis, and the Latin heroic epic Waltharius. Morreale, 'Chronicon'. Alessio, Cronaca, V.19, p. 280. Morreale, 'Chronicon'...
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    dynasty Carolingian Empire Carolingian Renaissance Saint-Gall Cantatorium Waltharius Ekkehard I Walter William Horn's Papers Regarding The Plan of St. Gall :...
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    charity. He was also distinguished as a poet, and wrote a Latin epic "Waltharius", basing his version on an original German text. He dedicated this poem...
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  • (Ekkehardus Decanus; 910–973), dean at the abbey and presumed author of the Waltharius poem. Ekkehard II was educated by his uncle and the monk Geraldus, who...
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  • the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 920: Waltharius, a Latin poem founded on German popular tradition, which relates the exploits...
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    antiquae civitatis Pedonae Vita beati Dalmatii Chronicon novaliciense Waltharius Beati Heldradi novaliciensis abbatis vita Necrologium prioratus sancti...
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    France. The site was first known as the centre of the German legend of Waltharius in the 10th century. Two castles were built here in the 13th century each...
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  • Wasigenstein 120113th century Ruins Associated with the German legend of Waltharius. Château de Wineck 1300c.1300 Ruins Château de Wittschloessel 120113th...
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  • Region in modern western France. The people of Walter of Aquitaine in the Waltharius, Walter's association with Aquitaine (MHG Wasconenlant, Wasconje lant...
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    noble family of Thurgau, and he was a nephew of Ekkehard I, the poet of Waltharius. He went to the Abbey of Saint Gall when only a boy, and there acquired...
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    Brentanos 'Ponce de Leon' : eine Säcularstudie, 1901. Nibelungias und Waltharius, 1909. Das geraubte deutsche Westpreußen, 1926. Goethe : gesammelte Vorträge...
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    with the villain's daughter/maid can also be found in the epic poem of Waltharius. French folklorist Paul Delarue indicated that a possible antecessor to...
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    well as a Polish version of the story of Waldere and Hildegyth (also Waltharius), a popular tale of medieval Europe, transplanted onto Polish soil. Michałowska...
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    Old Norse, Old Saxon languages. Waltharius: lateinisches Gedicht des zehnten Jahrhunderts (edition of "Waltharius", original author: Ekkehard I, Dean...
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  • hero Walter of Aquitaine, is known in other texts: a Latin epic poem Waltharius by Ekkehard of Abbey of St. Gall, dating from the first half of the 10th...
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  • Kegan Paul, 1989. Walthari: A Verse Translation of the Medieval Latin Waltharius, with Introduction and Notes, Scottish Papers in Germanic Studies, 1989...
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    Walter of Aquitaine. He is an outlaw for having killed a man in Saxony. Waltharius Ella Old Norse: Ella, Latin: Elli A Scandinavian adaptation of the OE...
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