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  • Elves or wolves? Correcting one word rewrites 800-year-old legend of Wade forever

    07/16/2025 6:50:27 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    Interesting Engineering ^ | July 16, 2025 | Mrigakshi Dixit
    Cambridge scholars have finally cracked a 130-year-old medieval literary puzzle: the Song of Wade, a long-lost gem of English literature.Previously believed to be a monster-filled epic, new research reveals it was actually a chivalric romance -- a tale of knights, battles, and courtly intrigue.A few lines of text in an 800-year-old medieval sermon document stumped the literature scholars.The breakthrough came from correcting a long-standing misreading in a medieval sermon: the word "elves" was mistakenly transcribed by a scribe, and the correct word is "wolves.""Changing elves to wolves makes a massive difference. It shifts this legend away from monsters and giants...