• Wulf (redirect from Offa (name))
    Anglo-Saxon Offa, Yffe, Uffa, Wuffa. Corresponding continental forms are Uffo, Uffi. The name of the ancient tribe of the Ubii may also be related. Offa of Angel...
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    are translated in: Fulk, Robert D. "The Name of Offa's Queen: Beowulf 1931–2." Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 122.4 (2004): 614–39, appendix...
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    are reconstructed names for a character who figures as the queen of King Offa in Beowulf. The reason for the usage of both Thryth and the compound name...
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    neues ULFBERHT-Schwert aus Hamburg. Verbreitung, Formenkunde und Herkunft, Offa 27, 1970, 65-91 Media related to Ulfberht swords at Wikimedia Commons...
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  • of these, Uffa, as Offa of Angel, is known independently from Beowulf, Widsith and Vitae duorum Offarum ("The lives of the two Offas"). At this point the...
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    occurred in 795 when Charlemagne exchanged weapons with the Anglo-Saxon king Offa of Mercia. Scandinavian affinity towards foreign arms and armour during the...
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    Cheshire, England. Old Croghan Man, from 362 to 175 BCE, found in County Offaly, Ireland. Yde Girl, from 54 BCE to 128 CE, found 1897 near the village of...
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  • Mag Lena (category County Offaly)
    Irish territory of Firceall, between modern Tullamore and Durrow in County Offaly. Mag Lena straddled the Esker Riada, was near the border between Mide and...
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  • Glossary. Early English Text Society. London: Trübner. p. 179. æscwine offing, offa bedcing, bedca (sigefugling), sigefugl swæpping, swæppa antsecging, ant(secg)...
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  • Cheatin' Heart, Darling Nikki, (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, Get Up Offa That Thing, and Mardi Gras Mambo. Horrigan, Bill. "Sadie Benning or the Secret...
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