Uffingas
The Uffingas or Wuffingas were suggested to be the first united tribe of the East Angles.[1][1][2][3]
They were suggested in the Flores Historiarum and by Henry of Huntingdon to have been the descendants and dynasty of a King Uffa or Wuffa, who was supposed to have ruled around 571 to 578 CE.[4][5] They were suggested to have been created when tribes of modern Suffolk (South-folk) and Norfolk (North-folk) united under a single leader.[1] Francis Palgrave suggested they were once called "Fikeys".[6]
Similar legendary tribes were recorded as the ancestors Beowulf; the Scyldingas and the Iclingas mentioned in "Vita Sancti Guthlaci" about Guthlac of Crowland.[5] Sven Lindqvist has suggested that the epic poem Beowulf itself may have been written in honour of the Uffingas.[7] It has been speculated that the Uffingas may have been centred around Rendlesham, near Sutton Hoo. Apart from the references in Bede, the only knowledge we have passed down to us about East Anglian people of the sixth century and earlier comes from the first few names listed in the Genealogy of the Uffingas.[8]
It has been speculated that the towns of Uffington, Tooting and Gillingham may have been settled by three noble families of the Uffingas, Totingas and Gillingas although there is only philological evidence for such claims.[9] Mary Vivian Hughes suggested the Uffington White Horse (pictured) may have been named after "the Saxon king Uffa".[10] It has even been suspected that the Uffingas originally built Norwich Castle.[11][12]
References
- ^ a b c Philip Smith (1867). A smaller history of England. (By P. Smith). Ed. by W. Smith. 9th thous. pp. 11–. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ Jesse Russell; Ronald Cohn (June 2012). Wuffingas. Book on Demand. ISBN 978-5-512-66577-0. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ John Lingard (1823). A History of England from the fist invasion by the Romans, 1. Baldwin and Cradock. pp. 97–. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ Sir Francis Palgrave (1832). The rise and progress of the English commonwealth: Anglo-Saxon period. Containing the Anglo-Saxon policy, and the institutions arising out of laws and usages which prevailed before the conquest. J. Murray. pp. 1–. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ a b Sharon Turner (September 2011). History of the Anglo-Saxons. BiblioBazaar. pp. 90–. ISBN 978-1-179-26047-1. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ Sir Francis Palgrave; Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave; Geoffrey Palgrave Barker (1921). The collected historical works of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H.,. University press. pp. 539–. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ Colin Chase; University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies (1997). The Dating of Beowulf. University of Toronto Press. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-0-8020-7879-7. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archæology and Natural History, Volume 24, Issue 2-3, p. 233. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ Lawrence Krader; Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevskiĭ (1975). The Asiatic mode of production: sources, development and critique in the writings of Karl Marx, p. 246. Van Gorcum. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ Mary Vivian Hughes (1931). About England. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. p. 200. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ Peter Ridway Watt; Joseph Green (2003). The Alternative Sherlock Holmes: Pastiches, Parodies, and Copies. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-0-7546-0882-0. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ The history of the city and county of Norwich: From the earliest accounts to the present time. printed by John Crouse, and sold by M. Booth. 1768. pp. 5–. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
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