Wecta (

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: ''Wægdæg'',

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: ''Vegdagr'') is a figure mentioned in the '' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' and the '' Historia Brittonum''. Wecta is considered mythological, though he shows up in the genealogies as a Saxon ancestor of Hengest and Horsa and the kings of Kent, as well as of Aella of Deira and his son Edwin of Northumbria. Wecta appears in the '' Prologue to the Prose Edda'' as Vegdeg, one of Woden's sons, a mighty king who ruled East

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. 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'' and the Anglian collection of Anglo-Saxon genealogies reverses the order of Witta and Wihtgils in the genealogy.

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