 The name Wehha has been linked as a hypocoristic ( shortened ) version of Wihstān , the father of Wiglaf in the Anglo @-@ Saxon poem Beowulf , strengthening the evidence for a connection between the Wuffingas dynasty and a Swedish royal dynasty , the Scylfings . It has also been suggested that Wehha is a regular hypocoristic form of Old English names beginning with Wē ( o ) h- , for instance in the unattested name * Weohha . Lindqvist 's conjecture that Wehha is a hypocoristic form of the name Weohstan is linguistically not possible , according to O 'Loughlin , as Weohstan is a later West Saxon name . 
