Walter of Aquitaine

Epic poetry

• 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, a Latin prose chronicle composed c.1060, at Novalesa Abbey: 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 Walther appears among the Burgundian champions of Kriemhilt's rose garden. He refuses to fight his kinsman Dietleib.
• Biterolf und Dietleib, an epic tale about Walther's brother Biterolf and his nephew Dietleib, who enter the service of Etzel. Walther plays a supporting role.
• Þiðrekssaga, which tells the stories of Walter briefly in chapters 241-244.
• Chronicon Poloniae by Boguchwał, which outlines the story of Walter as a Polish count, Wdaly Walczerz, under the year 1135.