High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Offa (also Uffo or Uffe) (late 400`s) was the 4th-great-grandfather of Creoda of Mercia, and was reputed to be a great-grandson of Woden, English god of war and poetry and creator of Middle-Earth, the realm of man. Offa was the son of Wermund, and the father of Angeltheow. The author `Swaffington` translates the name Angeltheow as "Angle-Servant", or in the modern context "Englisc-Warrior".