At the end of last year, one of my PhD students (the estimable Ian Shiels, not AFAIK on Mastodon) published a fab (albeit sadly closed-access) article on the Old English poem 'Wulf and Eadwacer'. Following up on the possibility (dare one say likelihood?) that Eadwacer is a reflex of the late Roman general Odoacer, Ian hunted through all the Odoacer material and came up with what I think is a very convincing analogue in a seventh-century chronicle by one John of Antioch. A nice example of what can happen when Old Anglicists have a close look at Greek texts :-)

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ang-2022-0056/html

If you have access to Anglia, I recommend the article :-)

#medievodons #medieval #OldEnglish #Eadwacer #Odoacer