[1948] geongum cempan. Offa's youth at the time of his heroic exploit is made much of in the Widsið allusion. According to later traditions, curiously both Scandinavian (Sven Aageson, Annales Ryenses) and English ones (Vita Offae I), he had reached his thirtieth year before he revealed his valor. However, one of a set of drawings made at St. Albans (in one of the MSS. of the Vitae) represents him as a youth, see R W. Chambers, Six thirteenth century drawings illustrating the story of Offa and of Thryth (Drida), London [privately printed], 1912.
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