WERMUND  , an ancestor of the Mercian royal See also:

• FAMILY

family, a son of Wihtlaeg and See also:

• FATHER

father of See also:

• OFFA
• OFFA (d. 796)

Offa . He appears to have reigned in See also:

• ANGEL

Angel, and his See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story is preserved by certain Danish historians, especially Saxo Grammaticus . According to these traditions, his reign was See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long and happy, though its prosperity was eventually marred by the raids of a warlike See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king named Athislus, who slew Frowinus, the See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor of See also:

• SCHLESWIG (Dan. Slesvig)

Schleswig, in See also:

• BATTLE

battle . Frowinus's See also:

• DEATH

death was avenged by his two sons, Keto and Wigo, but their conduct in fighting together against a single See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man was thought to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a See also:

• NATIONAL

national disgrace, which was only obliterated by the subsequent single combat of Offa . It has been suggested that Athislus, though called king of the Swedes by Saxo, was really identical with the Eadgils, See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord of the Myrgingas, mentioned in Widsith . As Eadgils was a contemporary of See also:

• ERMANARIC (fl. 350-376)

Ermanaric (Eormenric), who died about 370, his date would agree with the indication given by the genealogies which See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place Wermund nine generations above See also:

• PENDA

Penda . Frowinus and Wigo are doubtless to be identified with the Freawine and See also:

• WIG (short for " periwig," an alternative form of " peruke," Fr. perruque; cf. Span. peluca; conjecturally derived from Lat. pilus)

Wig who figure among the ancestors of the See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of Wessex . For the story of the aggression against Wermund in his later years, told by the Danish historians and also by the Vitae duorum Offarum, see OFFA; also Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, edited by A . Holder, pp . 105 if . (See also:

• STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg, 1886) ; Vitae duorum Offarum (in Wats's edition of See also:

• MATTHEW, GOSPEL OF ST
• MATTHEW, ST (MaOOaior or MarOaIos, probably a shortened form of the Hebrew equivalent to Theodorus)
• MATTHEW, TOBIAS

Matthew See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, See also:

• LONDON

London, 1640) . See also H .

M . See also:

• CHADWICK, SIR EDWIN (18o0-1890)

Chadwick, Origin of the See also:

• ENGLISH

English Nation (See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, 1907) .