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Veleda
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Also known as Velléda

thumb|Statue of Veleda by Laurent Marqueste () thumb|"Veleda, prophetess of the Germans," by Juan Scherr (1882) Veleda () was a seeress of the Bructeri, a Germanic people who achieved some prominence during the Batavian rebellion of AD 69–70, headed by the Romanized Batavian chieftain Gaius Julius Civilis, when she correctly predicted the initial successes of the rebels against Roman legions.

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  • Experiencias 11 . Libro del alumno
  • Experiencias 12 . Libro del alumno
  • Experiencias 11 - 12 . Libro del profesor
  • Experiencias 13 . Libro del alumno
  • Experiencias 14 . Libro del alumno

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States

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Contents
  • Name
  • Life
  • Batavian Uprising
  • Legacy
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

thumb|Statue of Veleda by Laurent Marqueste () thumb|"Veleda, prophetess of the Germans," by Juan Scherr (1882) Veleda () was a seeress of the Bructeri, a Germanic people who achieved some prominence during the Batavian rebellion of AD&nbsp;69&ndash;70, headed by the Romanized Batavian chieftain Gaius Julius Civilis, when she correctly predicted the initial successes of the rebels against Roman legions.

== Name == The name Veleda () is most likely a borrowing from an unattested Gaulish noun *ueletā, meaning 'seeress' (cf. Gaulish uelets, Old Irish filed, Middle Welsh gwelet, 'seer'), with regular Germanic sound correspondence -t- > -d-. It may thus not represent a proper personal name, but rather a title originally designating the female officiant (i.e. the priestess) of a cult.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Veleda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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