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the Goth, Eormanric the Goth, and other legendary figures of the Germanic past". Historically, we know that one speaker could not travel to see all of these nations in one lifetime. In a similar vein, "I was with the Lidwicingas, the Leonas, and the Langobards", Widsith boasts,
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runs through a list of the various kings of renown, both contemporary and ancient ("Caesar ruled the Greeks"), the model being '(name of a king) ruled (name of a tribe)'. The second
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in the 4th century. It is moot whether Widsith literally intends himself, or poetically means his lineage, either as a Myrging or as a poet, as when "the fictive speaker
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contains the names of the peoples the narrator visited, the model being 'With the (name of a tribe) I was, and with the (name of another tribe)'. In the third and final
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uses the rhetoric of first-person address to insert himself into the same legendary world that he evokes in the earlier parts of the poem through his allusions to
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Widsith, the closing, and brief comments regarded by some scholars as interpolations, the poem is divided into three 'catalogues', so-called
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in southwestern England. The poem is for the most part a survey of the people, kings, and heroes of Europe in the
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The widely travelled poet Widsith (his name simply means "far journey") claims himself to be of the house of the
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The list of kings of tribes is sorted by "fame and importance", according to Hedeager, with Attila of the
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Pascual, Rafael (April 2016). "Old English Metrical History and the Composition of Widsið".
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There is some controversy as to when "Widsith" was first composed. Some historians, such as
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Iron Age myth and materiality: an archaeology of Scandinavia, AD 400-1000
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Niles, John D. (2003). "The Myth of the Anglo-Saxon Oral Poet".
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Niles, John D. (2003). "The Myth of the Anglo-Saxon Oral Poet".
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Lotte, Hedeager (2011). "Knowledge production reconsidered".
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with the Hebrews and the Indians, and with the Egyptians...
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I sought Wulfhere and Wyrmhere; there battle did not abate
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Wulfhere sohte ic ond Wyrmhere; ful oft þær wig ne alæg,
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Anglo-Saxon poetry: an anthology of Old English poems
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Index

Tribes of Widsith

Old English
Old English poem
Exeter Book
Vainglory
The Fortunes of Men
Exeter Cathedral
Heroic Age
John Niles
King Alfred
Kemp Malone
Battle of the Goths and the Huns
Hervarar saga
Lotte Hedeager
Migration Age
Denmark
Baltic
R.H. Hodgkin
Leonard Neidorf
scop
thulas
Viking
Hroðulf
Hroðgar
Ingeld
Heorot
Heaðobards
Myrgings
weaver of peace

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