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en-wikipedia-org-3764		Widsith - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3139	458	81	Some historians, such as John Niles, argue that the work was invented after King Alfred's rule to present "a common glorious past", while others such as Kemp Malone have argued that the piece is an authentic transcription of old heroic songs.[2]:181 Among the works appearing in the Exeter Book, there are none quite like Widsith,[2]:182 which may be by far the oldest extant work that gives a historical account of the Battle of the Goths and the Huns, recounted as legends in later Scandinavian works such as the Hervarar saga.[2]:179 Archaeologist Lotte Hedeager argues that Widsith goes back to Migration Age history--at least part of it was composed in the 6th century, and that the author demonstrates familiarity with regions outside of Britain, including Denmark and the Baltic coast.[2]:184–186 Hedeager is here in agreement with R.H. Hodgkin[3] and Leonard Neidorf, who argues that "when situated within the history of Anglo-Saxon culture and identity, Widsith clearly belongs to a time prior to the formation of a collective Anglo-Saxon identity, when distinct continental origins were remembered and maintained by the Germanic migrants in the British Isles [...] Widsith is a very old poem."[4]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3764.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3764.txt