_Volospá_ (the Sibyl's Song of the Doom of the Gods), in the 'Poetic Edda,' 43, 77, 139; another copy in Hauk's book, 47, 93 _Volsunga Saga_, a prose paraphrase of old Northern poems, 71, 77, 79, 280 _Volsungs, Old Lay of the_, 96 _Wade, Song of_, fragment recently discovered, 180 (see _Academy_, Feb. 15, 1896) _Waldere_, old English poem (fragment), 78, 86 _sq._, 116, 163: see _Walter of Aquitaine_ _Walewein, Roman van_, Dutch romance of Sir Gawain; the plot compared with the Gaelic story of Mac Iain Direach, 337, 340-343 Walter of Aquitaine, 5, 78, 84 _sq._, 206 _Waltharius_, Latin poem by Ekkehard, on the story of Walter of Aquitaine, _q.v._ _Wanderer, the_, old English poem, 134 Ward, H.L.D., his Catalogue of MS. Romances in the British Museum, 282 Wealhtheo, 166 _Weland_, 338 represented on the Franks casket in the British Museum, 48 mentioned in _Waldere_, 87, 163 _Lay of_, in 'Poetic Edda,' 77, 94 _Well at the World's End_, 387 Widia, Weland's son, 87, 163 _Widsith_ (the Traveller's Song), old English poem, 76, 115, 134 Wiglaf, the 'loyal servitor' in _Beowulf_, 166 William of Orange, old French epic hero, 296: see _Coronemenz Looïs_, _Charroi de Nismes_, _Prise d'Orange_, _Aliscans_, _Rainouart_; cf. J. Bédier, _Les Légendes épiques_ (1908) Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, Edinburgh.