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PERSONS AND PLACES
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- Wægmundings (149, 160), the family to which both Beowulf and Wiglaf belong. Their fathers, Ecgtheow and Weohstan, may have been sons of Wægmund.
- Wedermark (17), the land of the Weder-Geats, i.e. the Geats.
- Weders, Weder-Geats (13, 86, 122), Geats.
- Weland (26), the Völund of the Edda, the famous smith of Teutonic legend, was the maker of Beowulf's coat of mail. See the figured casket in the British Museum; and compare "Wayland Smith's Cave" near the White Horse, in Berkshire.
- Weohstan was the father of Beowulf's kinsman and faithful henchman Wiglaf, and the slayer of Eanmund (149).
- Wonred, father of "Wulf the Wonreding" (167), and of Eofor.
- Wulf (167). See Eofor.
- Wulfgar, "a lord of the Wendels" (20), is an official of Hrothgar's court, where he is the first to greet Beowulf and his Geats, and introduces them to Hrothgar.
- Wythergyld (118) is a warrior of the Heathobards.
