Anglo-Saxon, history, Bernicia
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This second revision expands further the discussion of the succession and family relationships of the early Anglian kings of Bernicia explaining the origin of the name "Bernicia"; the emendations have a marginal bearing only on the... more
Published in *The Battle of Carham: A Thousand Years On* (Edinburgh, 2018) The purpose of this contribution is to outline the evidence we have for the 'northern English' polity based around Bamburgh, which under the leadership of Uhtred,... more
I argue for a redating of the early Kings of Bernicia; dating the origin of the kingdom nearly 30 years later than its traditional foundation date, and setting the reign of Æþelfrið into its dynastic context.
So far those seeking to discover the location of the Battle of Daegsastan (603) have adopted the wrong approach and so have come to the wrong answer(s). By giving due weight to military, geographical and political constraints a hitherto... more
This revised version mostly expands and corrects the discussion of the succession and family relationships of the early Anglian kings of Bernicia; the emendations have a marginal bearing only on the general proposition regarding the... more
Contradictory evidence in the oldest sources has led to the assumption that the siege of Lindisfarne, during which Urien, King of Rheged, was murdered, took place in the late 590s. So too the Battle of Alt Clud Ford is normally assigned a... more