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...work embraced the full range of late antiquity and early medieval art, from Anglo-Saxon Northumbria through Rome to Byzantium, according to a family-issued obituary...
...this millennium has been no stranger to calendar disputes. It was not until the sixth century that the monk Dionysus Exiguus created our calendar system by putting a date on Jesus' birth, and many people have still not yet agreed on the details. Think of the old dispute in Northumbria over the correct date of Easter: Starting in the year 627, as the Venerable Bede records, the Celtic and Roman traditions provided two different dates for Easter, and the Northumbrians were left to celebrate Easter twice a year. The queen fasted on a different day than the king...
...measures the price of Hastings in terms of the man who died there and the man who survived to wear the crown. Har old, he says, had little chance to lay his hand on England's future-but that little was enough to judge him. To secure insurrectionist Northumbria be fore the Norman invasion, Harold ventured north-the first English king in years to do so-protected only by a royal bodyguard and armed only with a passion for peace and reason. On a kingdom accustomed to aggressive war he imposed the principle of defensive resistance- "a campaign without...
...story gets under way with a rousing rape as Ragnar the Sea King (Ernest Borgnine) slaughters the King of Northumbria and has his way with the Queen. Her son, born in secret, is shipped away to Italy, but there's a fiord in his future. Ragnar's raiders capture the child and take him back to Norway as a thrall. Nobody knows that Ragnar is the boy's father, and Eric (Tony Curtis) loathes the old brute almost as much as he hates his half brother Einar (Kirk Douglas), who is Ragnar's legitimate...
Hope-Taylor was guided to it by the Venerable Bede, whose history of early Britain (written in the 8th century) related that Edwin, a 7th century king of Northumbria, had a royal palace of sorts at Gefrin, which is now the small (six houses) village of Yeavering in the Cheviot Hills. No visible traces remained, but in 1951 Cambridge University made an air survey of the region. Pictures of a field of sprouting barley showed a vague rectangular shadow and a smaller, wedge-shaped...