Baduhennae Lucus
Baduhennae Lucus the grove of Baduhenna,
a forest in the country of the Frisians. (Tac. Ann. 4.73.) It is believed by some to be the same as the modern Holtpade, which forms part of the forest of Levenwalde in West-Friesland, while others identify it with the modern Veluwe. The grove was no doubt a sacred one, and may have owed its name to a divinity of the name of Baduhenna, whose altar it contained. (M. Alting, Notit. Bat. et Fris. Antiq. i. p. 15; v. Wersebe, Die Völker Teutschl. p. 103.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.