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The first two annals in the Chronicle, for the years 888 and 890, are translations from the Old English of the original Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The annals for 893 and part of 894 are taken from the first continuation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. They are derived from a manuscript which did not contain the errors of dating that crept into the ...
He was the son of Charles Henry Hunter Blair and his wife Alice Maude Mary France. He was educated at Durham School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. [1]Hunter Blair was a fellow of Emmanuel College and Reader in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.
Viking kings ruled Jórvík (southern Northumbria, the former Deira) from its capital York for most of the period between 867 and 954. Northern Northumbria (the former Bernicia) was ruled by Anglo-Saxons from their base in Bamburgh. Many details are uncertain as the history of Northumbria in the ninth and tenth centuries is poorly recorded.
The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria was originally two kingdoms divided approximately around the River Tees: Bernicia was to the north of the river and Deira to the south. [4] It is possible that both regions originated as native Celtic British kingdoms, which the Germanic settlers later conquered, although there is very little information ...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle names two kings among the Danish dead called Eowils and Halfdan. In Æthelweard's Chronicon, a Latin translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a third king, Ingwær, is also named as killed at Tettenhall. [2] The defeat put an end to the threat from the Northumbrian Vikings for a generation.
Extent of Northumbria, c. 700 AD Historical linguists recognise four distinct dialects of Old English: Northumbrian, Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon. [3] [4] The Northumbrian dialect was spoken in the Kingdom of Northumbria from the Humber to the River Mersey (mersey meaning border river) in northern England to the Firth of Forth in the Scottish Lowlands.
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Cedd (Latin: Cedda, Ceddus; c. 620 – 26 October 664) was an Anglo-Saxon monk and bishop from the Kingdom of Northumbria.He was an evangelist of the Middle Angles and East Saxons in England and a significant participant in the Synod of Whitby, a meeting which resolved important differences within the Church in England.