"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... 20 KB (1,211 words) - 09:42, 17 March 2024 |
 | sixth century AD. Hrothgar appears in the Anglo-Saxon epics Beowulf and Widsith, in Norse sagas and poems, and in medieval Danish chronicles. In both Anglo-Saxon... 35 KB (4,825 words) - 15:21, 3 December 2023 |
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... 139 KB (4,214 words) - 00:40, 30 March 2024 |
("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... 14 KB (1,893 words) - 13:07, 21 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,192 words) - 05:31, 26 December 2023 |
 | Hrólfr Kraki (section Widsith) traditions describe the same people. Whereas the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf and Widsith do not go further than treating his relationship with Hroðgar and their... 39 KB (5,097 words) - 23:03, 28 November 2023 |
 | Herules West Herules Lemovii (=Turcilingi?) (also probably identical with Widsith's Glommas, Glomma or Glomman was the singular form) Lugians (Longiones?)... 105 KB (6,492 words) - 07:05, 27 November 2023 |
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... 4 KB (495 words) - 15:36, 30 May 2023 |
 | 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... 3 KB (305 words) - 06:37, 26 December 2023 |
 | correctly constructed modern English spelling Sheave. The Old English poem Widsith, line 32, in a listing of famous kings and their countries, has Sceafa... 14 KB (1,846 words) - 15:21, 14 April 2024 |