Early Medieval
Resources for Britain, Ireland and Brittany
St. Oswald
King of Bernicia
Feast Day:
August 5
Born 604 Died
642
Son of Æthelfrith
of Bernicia and Acha of Deira
- Bede's Ecclessiastical History of the English
People
- Book 3 Chapter
6
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- KING OSWALD, with the nation of the English
which he governed being instructed by the teaching of this most
reverend prelate, not only learned to hope for a heavenly kingdom
unknown to his progenitors, but also obtained of the same one
Almighty God, who made heaven and earth, larger earthly kingdoms
than any of his ancestors. In short, he 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. When raised to that height of dominion, wonderful to
relate, he always continued humble, affable, and generous to
the poor and Strangers.
Translations:
Short Passages on Oswald
Oswald in the Genealogies
Essays on Oswald and
his Northumbria
Michelle Ziegler (1999)
"The
Politics of Exile in Early Northumbria" The Heroic
Age Issue 2
"The Deiran Royal
Family"
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