Sidelights On Teutonic History During the Migration Period
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A possible explanation of this anomaly is that Wermund and Uffo came to be regarded as Danes, because they were known to have ruled over a country which later belonged to Denmark. When the Danes acquired possession of S. Jutland they became heirs, so to speak, of existing local traditions of which the story of Uffo would naturally be one, and Wermundus, which is the usual form in Saxo and Sven Aag., and which is English or Frisian and not Danish, would lend colour to this supposition f. The hyp...othesis which has been put forward to account for the presence of an English form Wermundus in Danish tradition — viz. that the Danes first acquired the story of Offa during the period of their invasions of Britain — would fail to account for the continental forms such as Fro win us and Uffo which occur in the Scandinavian authorities, and also for the localisation of events in their version of the story. Saxo, Sv. Aag., and other writers were apparently quite familiar with the spot on which Uffo's duel took * Cf.
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