Velleda, active 1st century
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Veleda, active 1st century
Weleda, active 1st century
Welleda, active 1st century
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North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
Occupation
Women prophets
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Sources
found: Rota, Giuseppe. Velleda, 1864.
found: Lenepveu, Ch. Velléda, 1883.
found: La Motte-Fouqueé, Friedrich Heinrich Karl. Welleda und Ganna, 1818.
found: Wikipedia, viewed Feb. 2, 2023(Veleda; seeress of the Bructeri, a Germanic people; she achieved some prominence during the Batavian rebellion of AD 69-70, when she correctly predicted the initial successes of the rebels against Roman legions. Her name may derive from the Celtic title for a prophetess (from Proto-Celtic "welet-", seer, a derivative of the root "wel-", to see); Veleda was re-popularized in the 19th century, and again the late 20th century) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veleda
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2023-02-02: new
2023-02-03: revised
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