Save Gender Feminine Usage Anglo-Saxon Mythology Pronounced Pron. WEL-tho, WE-ahlkh-the:-o [key] Other Forms FormsWealthow, Wealhþēow, Wealhtheow Meaning & History Composed of Old English wealh "foreigner, Celt, slave" and þeow "servant". Wealhþeow is a queen of the Danes as the wife of king Hroðgar in the anonymous 8th-century epic poem 'Beowulf'.