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... Mercian chieftain . A year later Aethelfrith's son Oswald destroyed Cadwallon and restored the kingdom of Northumbria , and he became overlord of all the lands south of the River Humber . But Mercia was becoming a serious rival ...
... Mercian chieftain . A year later Aethelfrith's son Oswald destroyed Cadwallon and restored the kingdom of Northumbria , and he became overlord of all the lands south of the River Humber . But Mercia was becoming a serious rival ...
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... Mercia from sudden incursions . The church and scholarship in Offa's time . Northum- bria was still preeminent in scholarship , and the fame of the school of York , founded by Bede's pupil Archbishop Egbert , attracted students from the ...
... Mercia from sudden incursions . The church and scholarship in Offa's time . Northum- bria was still preeminent in scholarship , and the fame of the school of York , founded by Bede's pupil Archbishop Egbert , attracted students from the ...
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... Mercia , the Continent , and Wales . Among them they made available works of Bede and Orosius , Gregory and Augustine , and the De consolatione philosophiae of Boethius . Compilation of the Anglo - Saxon Chronicle began in his reign ...
... Mercia , the Continent , and Wales . Among them they made available works of Bede and Orosius , Gregory and Augustine , and the De consolatione philosophiae of Boethius . Compilation of the Anglo - Saxon Chronicle began in his reign ...
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