{"id":279,"date":"2014-01-23T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/?page_id=279"},"modified":"2014-02-03T12:25:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T12:25:35","slug":"section-a-the-upper-reaches-of-the-wuffing-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wuffings-who-was-who\/section-a-the-upper-reaches-of-the-wuffing-genealogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Section A: The Upper Reaches of the Wuffing Genealogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These names may be regarded as deriving from pre- or proto-historical dynastic legend, originally preserved in Old English genealogical poetry. Some of the names are alliteratively grouped, and may refer to different origin-myths. The possible meaning of some of the names is suggested.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1. Woden &#8211; ancestral father-god of all the Old English royal families<\/li>\n<li>2. Caser &#8211; &#8220;Kaiser&#8221; or &#8220;Caesar&#8221;, symbolically filiated to Woden<\/li>\n<li>3. Tyttman<\/li>\n<li>4. Trygil &#8211; &#8216;Little Boat&#8217;?<\/li>\n<li>5. Hr\u00f3\u00f0mund &#8211; identifiable as Hr\u00f3\u00f0mund, prince of Denmark in <em>Beowulf<\/em> (<a title=\"The Origins of Beowulf and the pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia\" href=\"http:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/about-me\/the-origins-of-beowulf-and-the-pre-viking-kingdom-of-east-anglia\/\">See Chapter 4 of my book<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>6. Hryp<\/li>\n<li>7. Wilhelm &#8211; &#8216;Wolf-Helm&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>8. Wehha &#8211; &#8220;first to rule over the East Anglian folk in Britain&#8221; (<em>Historia Brittonum<\/em>, 59)<\/li>\n<li>9. Wuffa &#8211; &#8216;Little Wolf&#8217;; &#8220;from whom East Anglian kings were thenceforth named Wuffings&#8221; (Bede, <em>HE<\/em>, II, 15)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a9 Copyright Dr Sam Newton AD 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These names may be regarded as deriving from pre- or proto-historical dynastic legend, originally preserved in Old English genealogical poetry. Some of the names are alliteratively grouped, and may refer to different origin-myths. The possible meaning of some of the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wuffings-who-was-who\/section-a-the-upper-reaches-of-the-wuffing-genealogy\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":85,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-279","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions\/645"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuffings.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}