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Aneirin
The name given to a 13th‐cent. manuscript which contains the poem Y Gododdin, attributed to the bard Aneirin (or, incorrectly, Aneurin) who lived in the second half of the 6th cent. The poem ...
Bamburgh castle
In Northumberland is sited on an outcrop of basalt rock, overlooking the North Sea. A citadel of the Anglo‐Saxon kings of Bernicia, it was close to their palace at Yeavering and the royal monastery ...
battle of Catterick
6th cent.*Aneurin's poem Gododdin relates how the North Britons from Edinburgh were defeated at Catterick by the men of Bernicia and Deira. The battle was probably in the late 6th cent., and was an ...
battle of Heathfield
633.Here on the Lindsey–Elmet border, north of the Idle on Hatfield Chase, or possibly near Cuckney (Notts.), died Edwin of Deira, king of Northumbria, in circumstances which enabled his ...
battle of the River Idle
616.According to Bede, Edwin, young son of Aelle, king of Deira, was driven out of the kingdom by Æthelfric, king of Bernicia, and at length took refuge with Rædwald, king of East Anglia. Rædwald ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
The northernmost Anglian kingdom centred at Bamburgh and Yeavering. Ida, whose rule is traditionally dated to 547–59, founded the royal
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
an Anglian kingdom founded in the 6th century
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The Kings and Queens of Britain (2 ed.)
The kingdom of Bernicia was formed in the fifth century by Anglo-Saxon settlers around the rivers Tyne and Wear, and expanded rapidly, mainly at the expense of its Celtic neighbours, the ...
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Britain
The largest of the British Isles, including what is now called England, Wales, and Scotland. Until Roman times the island's inhabitants were dominantly Brythonic Celts, ancestors of the modern Welsh ...
Deira
An Anglian kingdom in modern Yorkshire, probably established by c.500. A royal line was founded by Ælla, who was still ruling in 597, according to Bede. Deira was joined with ...
Durham
Was one of the last shires to be fully incorporated into the English political and legal system, because for centuries it was a palatinate under the jurisdiction of the bishop. It did not receive ...
Edwin
(d. 633),king of Northumbria (617–33). The son of Ælle, king of Deira, Edwin was driven into exile during the reign in Northumbria of *Æthelfryth. With East Anglian aid he defeated and killed ...
Ida
[Na]English warlord of the mid 6th century ad, who settled on the coast of Northumberland, c.ad 547, built a fortress on the rock of Bamburgh, and founded the royal House of Bernicia, the northern ...
kingdom of Deira
Anglo‐Saxon kingdom lying north of the Humber and south of the Tees. The Deiran dynasty appears well established by the end of the 6th cent. when Ælle was ruling. The last member of the Deiran royal ...
kingdom of Elmet
British kingdom based in the south‐west of Yorkshire, including the area around Leeds; modern place‐names with the suffix ‘in‐Elmet’ delineate its eastern border. Before the end of the 7th cent. it ...
kingdom of the Gododdin
A British kingdom of the 6th cent. in south‐east Scotland. Aneurin's heroic poem tells of a raid by the Gododdin on the Anglo‐Saxon kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira, and of the battle at Catterick ...
kingdom of York
The Viking kingdom of York has attracted great attention since the Coppergate excavations revealed so much about Jorvik and its inhabitants. In 867 York was seized by Danish raiders from the Viking ...
Northumberland
Is a large county of ancient origins as an independent kingdom and one of the earliest centres of British Christianity. A great border region, it is full of peel houses and castles. The industrial ...
Northumbria
An ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom in NE England extending from the Humber to the Forth. The name comes from obsolete Northumber, denoting a person living beyond the Humber.
Oswiu
(d.670),king of Northumbria (642–70). Ruling Bernicia, Oswiu was responsible for the death of the Deiran king Oswin (651), his wife's kinsman. Oswin's successor allied with the powerful Mercian king ...
