Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th ...

After baffling scholars for over a century, Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade, revealing it to be a chivalric romance rather than a monster-filled myth. The twist ...

A medieval literary puzzle that has confounded scholars for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge University experts now believe the Song of Wade - a long-lost work which dates back to ...