Wealhtheow (Legendary character)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)

וילהת'או (דמות אגדית)

Name (Latin)

Wealhtheow (Legendary character)

Name (Arabic)

ويلهثيو (شخصية أسطورية)

Other forms of name

nne Wealhtheow

Wealthow (Legendary character)

Wealtheow (Legendary character)

Wikidata: Q2116944

Library of congress: sh 85145827

Sources of Information

Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie tradition, 1984:p. ix (Wealhtheow is largely an unknown quantity; she apparently has no literary, legendary, or historical source; her name is neither recorded elsewhere in the poetic corpus nor found in the Scandinavian analogues that refer to Hrothgar's wife; constructed along the lines of the stock female characters that pervade Germanic heroic poetry; also idiosyncratic, an Anglo-Saxon rendering of an identifiable legendary personality) p. 179 (Wealhtheow placed within the Germanic heroic tradition in the company of other major female warrior-women Elene, Judith, and Juliana, and the valkyrie-brides of the Eddic lays; has a metaphorical dimension) p. 180 (derived from Yrsa, the legendary personage, although the identification must properly remain provisional)
A companion to Beowulf, 2005:p. 67 (Hrothgar was the younger brother of Halga (Hegli in Norse); Helgi's son is Hrothulf; Hrothulf's mother, Yrsa, is well known in legend and some of her personal attributes are shared by Wealhtheow)
Wikipedia, May 7, 2007(Wealhþeow; the Wulfing queen of the Danes; married to the legendary king Hroðgar who lived in the early 6th century)
Crownover, A. Wealtheow, her telling of Beowulf, 2008.
Wikipedia WWW site, Oct. 27, 2008(Wealhþēow (also rendered Wealhtheow or Wealthow))

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