The Vitae duorum Offarum "The lives of the two Offas" is a literary history written in the mid-thirteenth century, apparently by the St Albans monk Matthew...
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by Luis Fernando Figari Speculum Vitae, Middle English poem possibly by William of Nassyngton Vitae duorum Offarum, literary history written in the mid-thirteenth...
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first depiction appears in an English manuscript, Matthew Paris's Vitae duorum Offarum, completed in 1250. By the 13th century, the wheelbarrow proved useful...
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Offa is also mentioned in the Annales Ryenses, Vita Offae Primi and Vitae duorum Offarum. According to Widsith and the Danish sources, Offa successfully conquered...
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of the persecuted heroine. The oldest such retelling appears in "Vitae Duorum Offarum", naming the king Offa; the king himself appears to be historical...
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"The Girl Without Hands". The oldest known variant is the medieval Vitae Duorum Offarum; it appears in chivalric romance in Nicholas Trivet's Chronique Anglo-Normane...
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relatively distinctive. What are probably his final sketches are found in Vitae duorum Offarum in BL MS Cotton Nero D I. From 1235, the point at which Wendover...
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successor, was only distantly related to Offa's line. Offacolus Vitae duorum Offarum Simon Keynes, "Offa", in Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, p...
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was a descendant of Penda. A tradition related by the 13th century Vitae duorum Offarum tells that she was of Frankish origin, and that for her crimes she...
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Offa of Angel, is known independently from Beowulf, Widsith and Vitae duorum Offarum ("The lives of the two Offas"). At this point the Danish pedigrees...
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