Wecta

Wecta

Wecta (Old English: "Wægdæg", Old Norse: "Vegdagr") is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Historia Brittonum, and was a Jutish chieftain who ruled East Saxony in Germany. His mother was Frigg (Frígídá) and his father was Woden.

He is considered mythological, though he shows up in genealogies as an ancestor of Hengest and Horsa and the kings of Kent. He also appears in the Prose Edda as Vegdeg, one of Odin's sons who ruled East Saxony. Although Wecta is mentioned as the father of Witta and the grandfather of Wihtgils in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Historia Brittonum, the Prose Edda reverses the order of Witta and Wihtgils in the genealogy.

ee also

*Anglo-Saxon mythology
*Germanic mythology
*Godwulf of Asgard
*Norse mythology


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