Widsith
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"Widsith", also known as "The Traveller's Song", is an Old English poem of 143 lines. It survives only in the Exeter Book, a manuscript of Old English poetry compiled in the late-10th century, which c
First lines of "Widsith"
Hrólfr Kraki
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Hrólfr Kraki, Hroðulf, Rolfo, Roluo, Rolf Krage was a semi-legendary Danish king who appears in both Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian tradition.
Widsith
…Hroðgar heoldon lengest sibbe ætsomne suhtorfædran, siþþan hy forwræcon Wicinga cynn ond Ingeldes ord forbigdan, forheowan aet Heorote Heaðobeardna þrym. Hroðulf and Hroðgar held the longest peace together, uncle and nephew, since they repulsed the Viking-kin and Ingeld to the spear-point made bow, hewn at Heorot…
Hrólfr Kraki spreading gold to escape the Swedes, by Jenny Nyström (1895).
Hjorvard and Hrólfr Kraki, by Jenny Nyström (1895).
Hrólfr Kraki and his warriors leap across the flames. Illustration by the Danish Lorenz Frølich in a 19th-century book.
Hrólf's parents Halga and Yrsa, by Jenny Nyström (1895).