Waldere

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Waldere is the conventional title of two Old English fragments from a lost epic poem, discovered in 1860 within the binding of an Elizabethan prayer book by E. C. Werlauff, Librarian of the Danish Royal Library at Copenhagen, and still preserved in that library.

In its complete form Waldere evidently told of adventures surrounding the hero Walter of Aquitaine (who is also the hero of the Latin epic Waltharius). In one fragment someone encourages Waldere to go on fighting. In the other there is praise of a sword, followed by Waldere's praise of his own armour and his encouragement of Guthhere.

Waldere was first edited by C. Stephens (1860), afterwards by R. Wulker in Bibliothek der angel-sächsischen Poesie (vol. 1, Cassel, 1881); then by Peter Holthausen in Göteborgs högskolas årsskrift (vol. 5, 1899), with autotype reproductions of the two leaves which have been preserved.

[edit] References

  • Waldere ed. F. Norman. London: Methuen, 1933. [Text.]
  • Anglo-Saxon poetry: an anthology of Old English poems tr. S. A. J. Bradley. London: Dent, 1982. [Translation.]
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