Another tradition says the Jew was Ahasue´rus, a cobbler, and gives the story thus: Jesus, overcome by the weight of the cross, stopped at the door of Ahasuerus, when the man pushed Him away, saying, “be off with you!” Jesus replied, “I am going off truly, as it is written; but thou shalt tarry till I come again.” ⁂ This legend is given by Paul von Eitzen, bishop of Schleswig, in 1547.--See Greve, _Memoirs of Paul von Eitzen_, Hamburgh (1744). In _Germany_, the Wandering Jew is associated with John Buttadæus, who was seen at Antwerp in the thirteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, and at Brussels in 1774. ⁂ Leonard Doldius of Nürnberg, in his _Praxis Alchymiæ_ (1604), says the Jew Ahasuerus is sometimes called Buttadæus. In _France_, the name given to the Jew is Isaac Laquedem, or Lakedion. ⁂ See Mitternacht, _Dissertatio in Johan._, xxi. 19. Salathiel ben Sadi is the name of the Wandering Jew, in Croly’s novel entitled _Salathiel_ (1827). Eugène Sue introduces a Wandering Jew in his novel called _Le Juif Errant_ (1845). Galt has also a novel called _The Wandering Jew_. Poetical versions of the legend have been made by A. W. von Schlegal, _Die Warnung_; by Schubert, _Ahasuer_; by Goethe, _Aus Meinem Leben_, all in German. By Mrs. Norton, _The Undying One_, in English, etc. The legend is based on St. John’s _Gospel_ xxi. 22. “If I will that _he_ tarry till I come, what is that to thee?” The apostles thought the words meant that John would not die, but tradition has applied them to some one else. =Wandering Knight= (_The_), El Donzel del Febo (“the Knight of the Sun”), is so called in the Spanish romance entitled _The Mirror of Knighthood_. Eumen´edês is so called in Peele’s _Old Wives’ Tale_ (1590). =Wandering Willie=, the blind fiddler, who tells the tale about Sir Robert Redgauntlet, and his son, Sir John.--Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.). =Wandering Wood= which contained the den of Error. Error was a monster, like a woman upwards, but ending in a huge dragon’s tail with a venomous sting. The first encounter of the Red Cross Knight was with this monster whom he slew.--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, i. 1 (1590). ⁂ When piety (_the Red Cross Knight_) once forsakes the oneness of truth (_Una_), it is sure to get into “Wandering Wood,” where it will be attacked by “Error.” =Wantley= (_Dragon of_), a monster slain by More of More Hall, who procured a suit of armor studded with spikes, and, proceeding to the lair, kicked the dragon in its mouth, where alone it was vulnerable.--Percy, _Reliques of Ancient Poetry_. One of Carey’s farces is entitled _The Dragon of Wantley_. =War of Wartburg=, a poetic contest at Wartburg’s Castle, in which Vogelweid triumphed over Heinrich von Ofterdingen.