The Wulfings, Wylfings or Ylfings (the name means the "wolf clan") was a powerful clan in Beowulf, Widsith and in the Norse sagas. While the poet of Beowulf never bothers to locate the Wulfings geographically (it was probably common knowledge), Scandinavian sources define the Ylfings (the Old Norse form of the name) as the ruling clan of the Eastern Geats (Nerman 1925). The Wulfings play an important role in Beowulf as Beowulf's father Ecgþeow of the Wægmunding clan had slain one o… (More on Wulfing)