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WERMUND , an ancestor of the Mercian royal See also:family, a son of Wihtlaeg and See also:father of See also:Offa. He appears to have reigned in See also:Angel, and his See also:story is preserved by certain Danish historians, especially Saxo Grammaticus. According to these traditions, his reign was See also: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 of See also:Schleswig, in See also:battle. Frowinus's See also:death was avenged by his two sons, Keto and Wigo, but their conduct in fighting together against a single See also:man was thought to See also:form a See also: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 of the Myrgingas, mentioned in Widsith. As Eadgils was a contemporary of See also:Ermanaric (Eormenric), who died about 370, his date would agree with the indication given by the genealogies which See also:place Wermund nine generations above See also:Penda. Frowinus and Wigo are doubtless to be identified with the Freawine and See also:Wig who figure among the ancestors of the See also: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, 1886) ; Vitae duorum Offarum (in Wats's edition of See also:Matthew See also:Paris, See also:London, 1640). See also H. M. See also:Chadwick, Origin of the See also:English Nation (See also:Cambridge, 1907).
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