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Aethelfrith Anglo Saxon King of Northumbria
The Anglo-Saxons came to the Northeast of England 100 years after Hengest landed in the south and by force of arms forged one of the most powerful kingdoms in the land. The name of that kingdom was Northumbria and one of its kings was Æthelfrith.
1006AD. Uchtred (The bold) - High-Reeve of Bamburgh
Uchtred (The Bold) was a High-Reeve of Bamburgh in Bernicia, a Anglo-Saxon kingdom in The North of England during the time that the Danes ruled Northumbria. Despite constant Danish raids into and though Bernicia, He and his line manage to hold onto the kingdom at a time when most of the country, was first in the hands of the Saxons and then in the hands of the invaders.
466AD. Hengest and Horsa (stallion and Horse) - Kent
466AD. Whether invited by the High King of The Britons, Vortigern, as some sources say or came of their own accord in search of land and bounty, as others describe, the Saxons came to Briton in 446 or thereabouts.
Hereward Legendary Hero
All the countries of the world have their legendary heroes and the small group of islands that make up the United Kingdom have their fair share. One of those heroes was Hereward the Wake (wary) who led a group of resistance fighters against the forces of William the Conqueror who subjugated England in 1066.
The Battle Of Stamford Bridge
In 1066 the battle of Hastings wasn’t the only battle that King Harold Godwinsson fought. Less than twenty days prior to that famous battle, he had no choice but to fight another battle in the north of England against an enemy that was as strong and equally as determined to wrest the throne of England from his grasp. That enemy was Haraldur (Hard Ruler) Sigurosson the king of Norway who claimed he had a right to the throne via a treaty between his nephew Magnus and King Knutur, the son of King Canute who had a claim on the throne of England.
Theban Pharaohs Take Back Their Country
For 100 years the Pharaohs had ruled the southern lands of Kemet from their base in Thebes, while having to pay taxes to hated Aamu (Asiatics or Hyksos) who ruled the middle and northern area of the land. During the reign of Seqenenre Tao II however, thing came to head when the overlord and leader of the Aamu, Apepi I, warned him against fermenting a rebellion.
Ivarr The Boneless Ragnarsson
Ivar known in Old Norse as Ivarr “Beinlauss” possible meaning, bone-loose or bone-less. (Could it be that he suffered from brittle bone disease or was he simply double jointed or could he have been exceptionally tall and loose limbed). What ever his disability was, if it was indeed a disability, it certainly did not affect his mind.
Was Robin Hood A Yorkshireman?
As a boy I was brought up on tales of Robin Hood and his merry men, as were my children and now, with a new series on the small screen, my children's children. We also lived for ten years in a small Yorkshire village near to Wentbridge called Little Smeaton, hence my interest in the Yorkshire connections to Robin Hood.
Alfred And The Cakes
For years the Danish Vikings had plagued the various Saxon kingdoms, creating havoc by pillaging and burning. They robbed the monasteries killing the monks and stealing the church gold. But in recent years things had changed, instead of simply raiding, the Danes had come to conquer and stay.
Tutimaios The Pharaoh Who Lost A Country
Tutimaios (Tutimaeus) (Timaus) (Dedumose1)
Tutimaios according to Manetho was the Pharaoh that lost his country to the foreign invaders known by many as the ‘Hyksos’, although the Egyptians themselves would have used the term ‘Aamu’ meaning in rough translation ‘Asiatics’. While we are on the subject of names in those far off days Egypt would not have been the name the locals called the country. The occupants of the rich fertile lands of the Nile Valley would have called it Kemet, Kem, or the Black Lands, (as opposed to the Red Lands of the desert).
London Bridge Is Falling Down
London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady.
So goes the old nursery rhyme that most likely records the destruction of the bridge by Olaf the Norwegian Viking.
There is another rhyme says Ottar Svarte that goes:
London Bridge is broken down.
Gold is won, and bright renown
Shields resounding,
War horns sounding,
Hild is shouting in the din.
Arrows singing,
Mailcoats ringing.
Odin makes our Olaf win.
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