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| | [CTRL] LIVING DINOSAURS FROM ANGLO-SAXON AND OTHER EARLY RECORDS |
 | | Alexander translates this: '...So it was that Offa [king of the continental Angles], brave with the spear, was spoken of abroad for his wars and his gifts; he governed with wisdom the land of his birth. |
 | | At the age of seven, in AD 502, he was brought to the court of Hrethel, his maternal grandfather (AD 445 - 503) who was then king of the Geatingas, a tribe who inhabited what is today southern Sweden (and whose eponymous founder, Geat, also appears in the early genealogies). |
 | | After an unpromising and feckless youth, during which years were fought the Geatish/Swedish wars, in particular the Battle of Ravenswood [Hrefnawudu] in the year AD 510, Beowulf undertook his celebrated journey to Denmark, to visit Hrothgar, King of the Danes. |
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