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Kingship in Early Northern Britain
When we write about 5-7th century kings we have this misplaced need to assign them a kingdom. We forget that when their contemporaries in neighboring kingdoms referred to them, they were usually refer… more →
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Kingship in Early Northern Britain
Michelle wrote 9 months ago: When we write about 5-7th century kings we have this misplaced need to assign them a kingdom. We for … more →
LKM: Dumnonia
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Michelle wrote 10 months ago: The kingdom of Dumnonia included Devon, Cornwall and parts of Dorset Dumnonia can be a frustrating p … more →
LKM: Cumbria-Galloway (Solway Firth)
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Solway Firth map showing Cumbria and Dumfries. Whithorn is located on the large promentory on the ea … more →
King Oswald Bibliography
Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Updated bibliography from my old site, “Early Medieval Resources for Britain, Ireland, and Bri … more →
Bernicia from the South
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: What I would like to explore today is the hypothesis that the early Bernicians were viewed as outsid … more →
LKM: Bernicia/Bryneich
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Bamburgh from the BBC Bernicia or Bryneich? We know that the name of the kingdom was British and the … more →
Elect Your King!
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Be a 7th century petty king for the day and elect your overlord! Who would you support? Note that wr … more →
The Grandfather Effect
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: As I worked on this month’s lost kingdom, my mind wondered on to the grandfather effect. There … more →
PW: Rhun ap Urien of Rheged
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Rhun (Rum) ap Urien figures prominently in the Historia Brittonum, where he is mentioned three times … more →
Superheroes
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: After marking Owain ap Urien as a superhero of Rheged it made be think about what makes a superhero … more →
Ecgfrith's Burial
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: St Oran's Chapel and the earliest cemetery of Iona I was reading more of Clarkson’s The Pi … more →
King Oswald and the Sussex Plague
Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Happy St. Oswald’s Day! It has been a while since I wrote but I can’t miss the feast of … more →
Coca-Cola "wins sponsor World Cup"
Valonia wrote 1 year ago: Football fans around the globe may be under the impression that Italy was the sole winner of this su … more →
PW: Queen Cynewise of Mercia
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Queen Cynewise is one of the few early Mercian queens that we have any information on at all. The on … more →
PW: King Ecgfrith of Northumbria
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: On May 20th, 685 King Ecgfrith of Northumbria fell deep in Pictland at Dunnichen to King Bridei, who … more →
Kingdoms and Realms
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Beware: Arbitrary definitions to follow Technically speaking the words kingdom and realm are interch … more →
Random thoughts on St Oswald at Prayer
Michelle wrote 1 year ago: From Bede’s History III.12 (McClure and Collins, p. 129) “It is related, for example, th … more →
LKM: Gododdin
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: This month’s lost kingdom is Gododdin in southern Scotland (early medieval northern Northumbri … more →
PW: King Œthelwald of Deira
Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Œthelwald son of Oswald has always been a figure of controversy. Everything we know of him comes fro … more →
