Walter of Aquitaine

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Walter or Walther of Aquitaine is a king of the Visigoths in Germanic heroic legend.

Epic poetry

Walter figures in several epic poems and narratives dealing with Germanic heroic legend in medieval languages:

• Waldere, a fragment of an Old English epic of which just over sixty lines survive.
• Waltharius, a 10th-century Latin epic written by the monk Ekkehard I of St Gall.
• Chronicon Novaliciense ("Chronicle of Novalesa"), a Latin prose chronicle composed c.1060, at Novalesa Abbey:^[1]
  Waltarius figures in chapters 7-13.
• Nibelungenlied, a Middle High German epic in which Walter is mentioned briefly.
• Walther, a lost Middle High German epic of which several short fragments from different redactions are known. In these the hero is sometimes called "Walther von Kärlingen".
• The Rosengarten zu Worms, where Walter appears among the Burgundian champions of Kriemhilt's rose garden. He refuses to fight his kinsman Dietleib.
• Biterolf und Dietleib, an epic tale about Walter's brother Biterolf and his nephew Dietleib, who enter the service of Etzel. Walter plays a supporting role.
• Þiðrekssaga
  , which tells the stories of Walter briefly in chapters 241-244.
• Chronicon Poloniae ("Chronicle of Poland") by Boguchwał, which outlines the story of Walter as a Polish count, Wdaly Walczerz, under the year 1135.

The most complete poem specifically about Walter is