• "Waldere" or "Waldhere" is the conventional title given to two Old English fragments, of around 32 and 31 lines, from a lost epic poem, discovered in...
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    Niðhad (section Waldere)
    Niðung in the Þiðrekssaga, and as Niðhad in the Anglo-Saxon poems Deor and Waldere. The legend of Níðuðr and Wayland also appears on the Gotlandic Ardre image...
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    Gunther (section Waldere)
    appear as his brothers and co-kings. In the fragmentary Old English poem Waldere (c. 1000), the Old English attestation of the story of Walter of Aquitaine...
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    mentioned in passing in a wide range of texts, such as the Old English Waldere and Beowulf, as the maker of weapons and armour. He is mentioned in the...
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    Witege (section Waldere)
    Anglo-Saxon fragment known as Waldere, Wudga (Widia) is mentioned together with his father Wayland in a praise of Mimung, Waldere's sword that Weyland had made...
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    hero Dietrich von Bern, includes the Old English poems Widsith, Deor, and Waldere, the Old High German poem Hildebrandslied, and possibly the Rök runestone...
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  • ēþel or œþel ("ancestral property or land") in texts such as Beowulf, Waldere and the Old English translation of Orosius' Historiae adversus paganos...
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    Aquitaine. A fragmentary Old English poem on the same character is known as Waldere. Jacob Grimm in Teutonic Mythology speculates that Walthari, literally...
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    narratives dealing with Germanic heroic legend in medieval languages: Waldere, a fragment of an Old English epic of which just over sixty lines survive...
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    to the 8th century): Legendary master blacksmith who appears in Deor, Waldere, and Beowulf; the legend is depicted on the Franks Casket. Arthurian tales:...
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  • by many to be a retelling of one of the battle scenes in Beowulf, and Waldere, a version of the events of the life of Walter of Aquitaine. Two other...
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    fragment of the Anglo-Saxon Waldere shows more of the original spirit. In Waltharius Hiltgunt advises Waltharius to fly; in Waldere she urges him to the combat...
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  • Waldhere, Wealdhere or Waldere can refer to: Waldere, Old English epic poem surviving only in fragments Waldhere (Bishop of London), early 8th-century...
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  • connection between this and the preceding sections is that the Old English poem Waldere, as well as German and Old Norse analogues, have Widia, the son of Weland...
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    the Smith. The legend of Walter of Aquitaine is told in the fragmentary Waldere, which also includes mentions of the fights of the heroes Ðeodric (Dietrich...
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  • of Maldon, a heroic poem of which only 325 lines in the middle survive. Waldere, an epic which is now lost apart from two short fragments. The Finnesburg...
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    epic to have survived in its entirety, but fragments of others such as Waldere and the Finnesburg Fragment show that it was not unique in its time. Other...
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    epic based on another episode in the Mahabharata Beowulf (Old English) Waldere, Old English version of the story told in Waltharius (below), known only...
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    forged the magic sword Mimung, which appears both in the Anglo-Saxon poem Waldere and in the German/Scandinavian Þiðrekssaga. Beowulf wielded the sword Hrunting...
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    Newspapers.com. Moncrieff, Charles Scott (1921). Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor: Done Into Common English After the Old Manner. New York: E. P. Dutton...
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    "Metres of Boethius" "Paris Psalter" (BNF MS 8824) "Finnsburh Fragment" "Waldere A, B" "The Battle of Maldon" "Durham" "Rune poem" Solomon and Saturn "The...
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    "Metres of Boethius" "Paris Psalter" (BNF MS 8824) "Finnsburh Fragment" "Waldere A, B" "The Battle of Maldon" "Durham" "Rune poem" Solomon and Saturn "The...
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  • "Metres of Boethius" "Paris Psalter" (BNF MS 8824) "Finnsburh Fragment" "Waldere A, B" "The Battle of Maldon" "Durham" "Rune poem" Solomon and Saturn "The...
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    works translated by Scott Moncrieff are: Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor Proust, Remembrance of Things Past [Volumes I to VI] Stendhal, The...
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    Cambridge Cambridge University Press Verse 1921 Widsith; Beowulf; Finnsburgh; Waldere; Dior [sic], done into Common English after the Old Manner Charles Scott...
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  • conjectured. Rickert speculated that the situation resembled the scene in the Waldere fragment, "in which Widia, Wate's grandson, and Hildebrand rescue Theodoric...
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    The Gentleman's Magazine. In 1860, he published the first edition of the Waldere fragments. In 1877, Uppsala University made him doctor honoris causa. His...
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    "Metres of Boethius" "Paris Psalter" (BNF MS 8824) "Finnsburh Fragment" "Waldere A, B" "The Battle of Maldon" "Durham" "Rune poem" Solomon and Saturn "The...
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    "Metres of Boethius" "Paris Psalter" (BNF MS 8824) "Finnsburh Fragment" "Waldere A, B" "The Battle of Maldon" "Durham" "Rune poem" Solomon and Saturn "The...
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    "Metres of Boethius" "Paris Psalter" (BNF MS 8824) "Finnsburh Fragment" "Waldere A, B" "The Battle of Maldon" "Durham" "Rune poem" Solomon and Saturn "The...
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