Rikiwulf ("The rich and powerful wolf" or "The Ruler of the wolves") was probably a member of the legendary Scandinavian
Wulfing
The Wulfings, Wylfings or YlfingsWord initial ''w'' was lost before rounded vowels in Proto-Norse, e.g. ''wulf'' corresponds to ''ulf'', and ''Wulfing''/''Wylfing'' corresponds to ''Ylfing'', because the ''i'' in the second syllable causes an umla ...
dynasty. In the ninth century, he sailed with his Viking warriors down the river
Lys in
Flanders
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, and settled inter alia Rikiwulfinga-haim near
Tielt
Tielt (; french: Thielt) is a Belgian city and municipality in the province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Tielt proper and the villages of Aarsele, Kanegem, and Schuiferskapelle.
History
Some traces of Gallo-Roman oc ...
,
near Menin, and
Richebourg,
Reclinghem,
Racquinghem and
Erquinghem-Lys in present
Artois
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, France.
He was possibly related to the Norwegian Viking Hrolf of Heidmark, who was also a
wulfing
The Wulfings, Wylfings or YlfingsWord initial ''w'' was lost before rounded vowels in Proto-Norse, e.g. ''wulf'' corresponds to ''ulf'', and ''Wulfing''/''Wylfing'' corresponds to ''Ylfing'', because the ''i'' in the second syllable causes an umla ...
who had settled in Normandy.
The wulfings were the ruling clan of the ancient Scandinavian Östergötland area.
The
Ynglinga Saga
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traces their origin back to
Odin.
The epithet Rikiwulf was also used for
Sigurd Eysteinsson of
Orkney
Orkney (; sco, Orkney; on, Orkneyjar; nrn, Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of the island of Great Britain. Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) nort ...
(846-92), who was nicknamed Riki
Ylfing.
It is said that the famous Viking warrior
Beowulf
''Beowulf'' (; ang, Bēowulf ) is an Old English Epic poetry, epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 Alliterative verse, alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and List of translations of Beo ...
may likely have been from what was the Östergötland region (Sweden).
Dr. Sam Newton, and Historians Boydell & Brewer proposed that the “Beowulf Saga” itself was composed in ancient Scandinavian Ostergland, inside the Wulfing Court.
References
External links
*{{cite web, url=http://www.heorot.dk/beo-intro-rede.html, title=Beowulf on Steorarume
eowulf in Cyberspace Bilingual Edition (OE text & translation), website=heorot.dk, author=Benjamin Slade, accessdate=2017-12-10
9th-century Norwegian people