The Myrgings were a clan and people of Saxon origin[citation needed] who, together with their king Eadgils, are only mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith.
The Myrgings lived south of Angeln near the Eider (river) and according to some sources near Schleswig which was the center of the Angles.
[citation needed] They were descended from Saxons who probably had settled in that area a few centuries earlier and probably merged with another tribe to form the Myrgings.
[citation needed] Kemp Malone, an American etymologist writing in 1944, suggested that the word "Myrging" means "Mire Dweller" or "Mire-District Dweller"; he also suggested that the name points to a miry or marshy habitat for the tribe and that the With-Myrgings were a sub-tribe of Myrgings who expanded across the Eider into Schleswig.
Malone claimed that the With-Myrgings lived in the valley of the Vidå river and that they were the ones at war with Offa of Angel.