I'm going to call him Wittekind because that's the spelling as used in street names . . .
If I'd known about that spelling, I'd have gotten farther before asking for help. We'll see how far that gets me.
Wittekind or Widukind itself comes from Wald and Kind, or essentially "child of the forest".
Now that is a valuable insight. One that I'm already hoping to use for some sort of foreshadowing. Thank you.
Can you read German? The German Wikipedia entry on Wittekind is fairly good . . .
A little -- although I'm far more likely to use it to wade through a Wagner libretto, hunting for credits, than anything else. And I can wash it through Google Translate (and hope I catch where the software gets it automatically wrong!), when it exceeds my vocabulary.
So when he was not killing people and burning villages (in his Viking-like sports-kit), he was skulking around the Monetary in monks robes and writing the history of the period. It is mainly thanks to him that the Germans have so much information about the period around the time when both Germany and Herford was founded.
So, Widukind wrote a history, too? Not just Widukind of Corvey, who lived a couple of centuries later?
If I'd known about that spelling, I'd have gotten farther before asking for help. We'll see how far that gets me.
Wittekind or Widukind itself comes from Wald and Kind, or essentially "child of the forest".
Now that is a valuable insight. One that I'm already hoping to use for some sort of foreshadowing. Thank you.
Can you read German? The German Wikipedia entry on Wittekind is fairly good . . .
A little -- although I'm far more likely to use it to wade through a Wagner libretto, hunting for credits, than anything else. And I can wash it through Google Translate (and hope I catch where the software gets it automatically wrong!), when it exceeds my vocabulary.
So when he was not killing people and burning villages (in his Viking-like sports-kit), he was skulking around the Monetary in monks robes and writing the history of the period. It is mainly thanks to him that the Germans have so much information about the period around the time when both Germany and Herford was founded.
So, Widukind wrote a history, too? Not just Widukind of Corvey, who lived a couple of centuries later?
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