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He was the most famous hero of the early Angels (Anglii in Latin). His name and story are the earliest history of any English speaking person. He is said by the Old English poem Widsith to have ruled over Angel, and the poem refers briefly to his victorious single combat, a story which is related at length by the Danish historians Saxo and Svend Aagesen. Offa (Uffo) is said to have been dumb or silent during his early years, and to have only recovered his speech when his aged and blind father Wermund was threatened by the Saxons, who insolently demanded the cession of his kingdom. Offa undertook to fight against both the Saxon king's son and a chosen champion at one time, to erase the shame and the reason he had not spoken all these years: two Angelish warriors had dishonorably attacked a single foreign warrior. Offa's combat took place at Rendsburg on an island in the Eider River, and Offa succeeded in killing both his opponents. According to Widsith Offa's opponents belonged to a tribe or dynasty called Myrgingas, but both accounts state that he won a great kingdom as the result of his victory. A somewhat corrupt version of the same story is preserved in the Vitae duorum Offarum, where, however, the scene is transferred to England. It is very probable that the Offa whose marriage with a lady of murderous disposition is mentioned in Beowulf is the same person; and this story also appears in the Vitae duorum Offarum, though it is erroneously told of a later Offa of Mercia. Offa of Mercia, however, was a descendant in the iath generation of Offa, king of Angel. It is probable from this and other considerations that the early Offa lived in the latter part of the 4th century. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Widsith is an Old English poem of 144 lines. ... Saxo, etching by the Danish-Norwegian illustrator Louis Moe (1857 – 1945) Saxo Grammaticus (estimated. ... Svend Aagesen (or Sven) also known as Aggessøn, Aggesøn or Aggesen. ... Wermund , an ancestor of the Mercian royal family, a son of Wihtlaeg and father of Offa. ... Rendsburg (Danish: Rendsborg) is a town at the Kiel Canal in the northeastern part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. ... Eider River near Tönning close to the North Sea The Eider (lat. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Myrgings was a clan which is only mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon poem Widsith, where they were the people of the skald Widsith. ... Jump to: navigation, search The first page of Beowulf This article describes Beowulf, the epic poem. ... Jump to: navigation, search Offa (died July 26/29, 796) was the King of Mercia from 757 until his death. ... (3rd century - 4th century - 5th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ...

See H. M. Chadwick, Origin of the English Nation (Cambridge, 1907), where references to the original authorities will be found.

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