CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION I: THE TEXT
The St Albans Tradition
Synopsis of the Text
Manuscripts
Authorship
INTRODUCTION II: THE NARRATIVE AND ITS CONTEXT
The Lack of Genre
The Kingdoms of Offa I and Offa II
Memories of Offa I
Champion Personalities
National Frontiers
Refugee Queens
Evil and Innocent Queens
Offa of Mercia: Regal Image
Pledge Fulfilled: St Albans Abbey
VITAE OFFARUM DUORUM
THE LIVES OF TWO OFFAS
APPENDICES
A) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, AD 755-96
B) Widsith, lines 36-44
C) Beowulf, lines 1931-62
D) Laȝamon’s Brut, lines 14400-683
E) The Welsh Chronicle of the Princes, AD 776-98
F) The Danish Annals of Ryd
G) Sweyn Aageson, Short History of the Danish Kings
H) Saxo Gramaticus, History of the Danes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
