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Veleda was a Germanic seeress of the Bructerian tribe who lived in the 1st century AD. According to Tacitus she had almost a goddess-like status in her tribe and even among the Romans she had some fame. She was vital in the politics between the Romans and the Germanic tribes during the Batavian war in 69 AD.

Etymology
It is not known whether her name was Germanic or Celtic. The argument for it being Celtic is because in Old Irish there was a word fili 'poet', or file, which in an earlier Ogham inscription was written VELITAS. The original meaning was 'seer', from Proto-Celtic *wel-et. However, the long ae in Velaeda points to it being a Germanic word, a cognate, i.e. related, to the Celtic word and not a loan word.