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Wittekind, Saxon historian
Widukind, or Wettekind (w´tknd, w´dknd, w´t) (KEY) , c.925c.1004, Saxon historian, a monk, frequently called Wittekind of Corvey. He wrote the Res gestae Saxonicae, a history of the Saxons from earliest times to 997.