Veleda
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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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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.
== 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.
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