The Northumbrians: North-East England and Its People: A New History

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Angle power was in the ascendant. In 603 they defeated Aedan, Gaelic King of Dál Riata, at the battle of Degsastan.

At the present time, there are five languages in Britain, just as the divine law is written in five books, all devoted to seeking out and setting forth one and the same kind of wisdom, namely the knowledge of sublime truth and of true sublimity. These are the English, British, Irish, Pictish, as well as the Latin languages".He spent his boyhood in the mining village of New Hartley in Northumberland, went to school in Seaton Delaval, studied for a PhD in history at Northumbria University and now works in Newcastle as director of governance and partnerships in the regional NHS. Wood, Ian (2008). "Thrymas, Sceattas and the Cult of the Cross". Two Decades of Discovery. Studies in Early Medieval Coinage. Vol.1. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. pp.23–30. ISBN 978-1-84383-371-0.

Bede, Ecclesiastical History, III: VI (Oswald "brought under his dominion all the nations and provinces of Britain, which are divided into four languages, viz. the Britons, the Picts, the Scots, and the English.")He divides his study of the region into five main themes: the martial, fighting tradition rooted in its history; its record of innovation and literacy; its landscape and architecture; friendliness, sociability and a drinking culture; and the region’s political outlook.

Sawyer, Peter (2013). The Wealth of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Oxford Scholarship Online. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253937.001.0001. ISBN 9780199253937. The best works of local history exert a fascination that transcends the merely local, and The Northumbrians is definitely one of the best.’ — The Sunday TimesThe Christian culture of Northumbria, fuelled by influences from the continent and Ireland, promoted a broad range of literary and artistic works. The most complete narrative of the battle itself is given by Bede, who nevertheless fails to inform us of the location other than his mention that it took place 'in straits of inaccessible mountains'. [17] Vikings take York in the face of weak, divided Northumbrian leadership. A Scandinavian army now dominates this part of the kingdom. Bernician prince Oswald defeats Cadwallon of Gwynedd at the battle of Heavenfield. He becomes arguably Northumbria’s greatest ruler.

The Northumbrians] is the most enjoyable book on a region of Britain that I have ever read. Often very moving, often very funny, it is written with a deep and learned love for Newcastle and its environs.’ — New Statesman Northumbria ( / n ɔːr ˈ θ ʌ m b r i ə/; Old English: Norþanhymbra rīċe; Latin: Regnum Northanhymbrorum) [4] was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now Northern England and south-east Scotland.When the chance came to write the book, billed as a “new history” of the region and its inhabitants, he grabbed it. During the seventh century AD, the Northumbrians gradually extended their territory to the north. The Annals of Tigernach record a siege of "Etain" in 638, [1] which has been interpreted as Northumbria's conquest of Eidyn ( Edinburgh) during the reign of Oswald, marking the annexation of Gododdin territories to the south of the River Forth. [2] But, says Dan, natives of the region would know which side of a line from Whitburn to Birtley to Chester-le-Street someone came from by asking them to say the word “beetroot”. Alarmed at Northumbria’s growing influence, a combined Welsh and Mercian force defeats and kills Northumbrian king Edwin at the battle of Hatfield.