Wermund , Vermund or Garmund is an ancestor of the Mercian royal family, a son of Wihtlaeg and father of Offa . The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle makes him a grandson of Woden , but the Gesta Danorum written by Saxo Grammaticus goes no further than his father, while the Brevis Historia Regum Dacie of Sven Aggesen makes Wermund son of king Frothi hin Frokni .
7-472: According to the Gesta Danorum, his reign was long and happy, though its prosperity was eventually marred by the raids of a warlike king named Athislus , who slew Frowinus , the governor of Schleswig , in battle. Frowinus's death was avenged by his two sons, Keto and Wigo , but their conduct in fighting together against a single man was thought to constitute a national disgrace, which was only reconciled by
14-749: The Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus , via Wikisource . Eadgils of the Myrgings Eadgils of the Myrgings is a king of the Myrgings a clan of Saxon origin who is mentioned on lines 93-96 in the Anglo-Saxon poem Widsith . He would have lived in the 5th century and is mentioned as the lord of the scop himself in the poem. According to the Old English poem Widsith , before Eadgils became king,
21-551: The Myrgings had been at war with a tribe called the Mofdings under the previous king Meaca who was probably killed in battle fighting against them resulting in their defeat and forcing the Myrgings to retreat back to the Eider where Eadgils probably became king, Following Meaca's death Eadgils became a powerful Myrging king by defeating the Mofdings and plundering the Angles and their lands as he
28-552: The governor of Schleswig . Frowinus' sons Ket and Wig avenged their father's death by killing Eadgils, but did so by fighting two against one. Because of this Offa decided to fight two Myrging princes, probably the sons of Eadgils, and slew them. After this, the Myrgings were successfully conquered by Offa. The slaying of Eadgils is also mentioned in Annales Ryenses and by the Danish historian Svend Aagesen . The latter says that
35-607: The indication given by the genealogies which place Wermund nine generations before Penda of Mercia . He is mentioned in lines 1958-1963 of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf as Garmund the father of Offa of Angel and grandfather of Eomer . Kings of the Danes are in bold and marked with an asterisk (*). Kings of the Swedes are marked with a dagger (†). Name spellings are derived from Oliver Elton 's 1905 translation, The First Nine Books of
42-614: 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 , king of the Myrgings , mentioned in Widsith , and Frowinus and Wigo are identified with the Freawine and Wig who figure among the ancestors of the kings of Wessex in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies . As Eadgils was a contemporary of Ermanaric , who died about 376, his date would agree with
49-519: Was determined to rule over them, however the Angles forced the Myrgings to flight. No other source remembers the Myrgings as they were probably assimilated to the surrounding Angles and only leaving the slightest of traces, This Eadgils has sometimes been confused with the Swedish king Eadgils who lived almost a century later. Eadgils was at war with the Angles and plundered their lands, He slew Frowinus ,
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