Its focus is King Offa (r. 757-96) and thus it helps to fill the chronological ... For Wessex we have The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, first compiled under the aegis of King Ælfred in the 890s, but ...

S. Olawoyin”. “The book has done a great deal of justice to the life and memory of the first Asiwaju of Offa. It is a celebration of the glorious place of Offa and its valiant people in Yoruba ...

Offa’s Dyke, the more well-known of the two, is linked to the 8th century Mercian king, Offa, whilst Wat’s Dyke is more enigmatic, with ongoing debate as to its age: whether it is earlier or ...