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OFFA

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 15 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OFFA , the most .famous hero of the early Angli. He is said by the Anglo-Saxon 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 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 once. The combat took place at Rendsburg on an
island
  in the Eider, and Offa succeeded in killing both his opponents. According to Widsith Off a'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, the famous king of Mercia. Offa of Mercia, however, was a descendant in the 12th generation of Offa, king of
Angel
 . It is probable from this and ether considerations that the early Offa lived in the latter
part
  of the 4th century.
See H. M. Chadwick, Origin of the English Nation (
Cambridge
 , 1907), where references to the
original
  authorities, will be found.


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