Waldere or Waldhere's the conventional title given to two Old English fragments from a lost epic poem, discovered in 1860 by E. C. Werlauff, Librarian, in the Danish Royal Library at Copenhagen, where it's still preserved. The parchment pages had been reused as stiffening in the binding of an Elizabethan prayer book. The Dissolution of the Monasteries had brought quantities of unregarded manuscripts into the English sixteenth-century market. The portion that was found was a part of a much bigger… (More on Waldere)