"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...

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

("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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

the Finnsburg Fragment. According to the listing of tribes in the poem Widsith (10th century), Hnæf ruled the Hocings. Hoc is called Hoc Healfdene, suggesting...

'pirate'. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

saga. Hǫgni of the Hjaðningavíg may be the same as Hagena in Widsith (line 21) since Widsith also pairs Hagena with Heoden (Heðinn). Peterson, Lena (2007)...

Gibica becomes the father of the three subsequent kings. He is mentioned in Widsith as Gifica and as Gjúki in the eddic poem Atlakviða, where he was the father...

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...

of these, Uffa, as Offa of Angel, is known independently from Beowulf, Widsith and Vitae duorum Offarum ("The lives of the two Offas"). At this point...

mythology. He appears in the Hervarar saga and probably also as Hlith in Widsith, line 115, together with his father Heiðrekr (Heathoric), half-brother...

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