Editing Offa of Angel (section)

{{Short description|Legendary king of the Angels}}
{{For|the later king of Mercia|Offa of Mercia}}
{{Further|Offa (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{More footnotes needed|date=February 2008}}
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[[File:Offa acclamé par son père Varmund.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Wermund runs to embrace his victorious son Offa. Illustration by the Danish [[Lorenz Frølich]] in a 19th-century book.]]
'''Offa''' (nickname for Wulf) is a [[kings of the Angles|semi-legendary king of the Angles]] in the genealogy of the [[kings of Mercia]] presented in the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]''. He is the son of [[Wermund]] and the father of [[Angeltheow]].
His name is also mentioned in the Old English poem ''[[Widsith]]''. He has been identified with '''Uffo''' (also ''Uffe, Uffi of Jutland''), a [[List of legendary kings of Denmark|legendary Danish king]] in the ''[[Gesta Danorum]]'' by [[Saxo Grammaticus]], and the ''[[Gesta Danorum på danskæ]]''.