Wecta (Old English: Wægdæg, Old Norse: Vegdagr) is a figure mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Historia Brittonum. Wecta is considered mythological...
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Witta son of Wecta is mentioned as a Jutish chieftain in the 449 entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the father of Wihtgils and the grandfather of Hengest...
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Chronicle are: Vegdagr/Wægdæg/Wecta. According to Snorri, Vegdeg ruled East Saxony. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Wecta form of the name heads the lineage...
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Heptarchy being conditional on descent from Woden. Woden is made father of Wecta, Beldeg, Wihtgils and Wihtlaeg who are given as ancestors of the Kings of...
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See Witta, son of Wecta for the mythological Jutish chieftain. Witta of Büraburg (also known as Albuin or Vito Albinus, a close Latin translation of his...
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identified with Baldur by Snorri. Seaxnēat, patron deity of the Saxons. Wecta, mentioned in multiple king-lists, possible cognate of Vegdeg, a son of...
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Bede, Hengist and Horsa were the sons of Wictgils, son of Witta, son of Wecta, son of Woden. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which exists in nine manuscripts...
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Büraburg, a missionary and bishop in 8th-century Germany Witta, son of Wecta, a Jutish chieftain in 5th-century sub-Roman Britain Witta (Bishop of Lichfield)...
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