According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

Bede does not say whether it was already intended at that point that he would be a monk.

He says relatively little about the achievements of Mercia and Wessex, omitting, for example, any mention of Boniface, a West Saxon missionary to the continent of some renown and of whom Bede had almost certainly heard, though Bede does discuss Northumbrian missionaries to the continent.

Bede does not state that Æthelberht had a palace in Canterbury, but he does refer to Canterbury as Æthelberht's " metropolis ", and it is clear that it is Æthelberht's seat.

According to Bede, Justus received letters of encouragement from Pope Boniface V ( 619 – 625 ), as did Mellitus, although Bede does not record the actual letters.

Bede records Justus as having died on 10 November, but does not give a year, although it is likely to have between 627 and 631.

Bede puts a clear emphasis on Oswald being saintly as a king ; although he could be interpreted as a martyr for his subsequent death in battle, Bede portrays Oswald as being saintly for his deeds in life and does not focus on his martyrdom as being primary to his sainthood — indeed, it has been noted that Bede never uses the word " martyr " in reference to Oswald.

Ten centuries after Bede, the French astronomers Philippe de la Hire ( in the year 1702 ) and Jacques Cassini ( in the year 1740 ), purely to simplify certain calculations, put the Julian Dating System ( proposed in the year 1583 by Joseph Scaliger ) and with it an astronomical era into use, which contains a leap year zero, which precedes the year 1 ( AD ) but does not exactly coincide with the year 1 BC.

The author of a continuation of Dionysius's Computus, writing in 616, described Dionysius as a " most learned abbot of the city of Rome ", and the Venerable Bede accorded him the honorific abbas, which could be applied to any monk, especially a senior and respected monk, and does not necessarily imply that Dionysius ever headed a monastery ; indeed, Dionysius's friend Cassiodorus stated in Institutiones that he was still only a monk late in life.

This source is higly influenced by the contemporary concerns of its writer, but does attempt to provide some new material besides reworking Bede.

Penda's queen, Cynewise, is named by Bede, who does not mention her children ; no other wives of Penda are known and so it is likely but not certain that she was Æthelred's mother.

Bede does not mention the cause of the battle, simply saying that it occurred in the ninth year of Ecgfrith's reign.

This does not seem to have been the case with Mercia, about which Bede is less informative than about other kingdoms.

Penda's queen, Cynewise, is named by Bede, who does not mention her children ; no other wives of Penda are known and so it is likely but not certain that she was Wulfhere's mother.

Bede does not list him as one of the rulers who exercised imperium, but modern historians consider that the rise to primacy of the kingdom of Mercia began in his reign.

Bede does not report the fighting, nor is it mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, but according to Stephen, Ecgfrith defeated Wulfhere, forcing him to surrender Lindsey, and to pay tribute.

It is likely that the Hwicce were converted to Christianity by Celtic Christians rather than by the mission from Pope Gregory I since Bede was well-informed on the latter yet does not mention the conversion of the Hwicce.

Although Bede does not explicitly say Æthelfrith married Acha, it is thought that he did so ; he may have married her prior to taking power in Deira, in which case the marriage may have facilitated it, or he may have done so afterwards in order to consolidate his position there.

The Historia Brittonum says that Æthelfrith gave the town of Din Guaire to his wife Bebba, after whom it was named Bamburgh ; Bede also says that Bamburgh was named after a former queen named Bebba, although he does not mention Æthelfrith.

King Alfred's ( Alfred the Great ) translation of Orosius ' history of the world uses Angelcynn (- kin ) to describe England and the English people ; Bede used Angelfolc (- folk ); there are also such forms as Engel, Englan ( the people ), Englaland, and Englisc, all showing i-mutation.

Some modern writers describe Justus as one of the original missionaries who arrived with Augustine in 597, but Bede believed that Justus came in the second group.

Adtwifyrdi is the name used by the Venerable Bede to describe the meeting of river and tributary at the mouth of the River Aln.

Although Bede does not describe either Eorcenberht or Deusdedit's symptoms he does discuss another victim of the 664 disease, who suffered from a tumour on his thigh, resembling the characteristic groin swellings of bubonic plague.

Bede uses the label " English " to describe the Germanic peoples who inhabited Britain: Angles, Saxons and Jutes and excludes Britons, Scots and Picts.

In the final paragraph to the preface of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People Bede departs from the usual word " gens " and instead uses the word " natio " to describe the " historia nostrae nationis ": the history of our own nation.

Almost everything known about Justus and his career is derived from the early 8th-century Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum of Bede.

Because Justus was probably not a monk ( he was not called that by Bede ), his cathedral clergy was very likely non-monastic too.

The pallium accompanying that letter indicates Justus was archbishop by that time, and the duration of Mellitus ’ s archiepiscopate means that even if Bede ’ s dates are somewhat wrong in other particulars, Eadbald was converted no earlier than 621, and no later than April 624, since Mellitus consecrated a church for Eadbald before his death in that month.

It has also been suggested that the pallium did not indicate Justus was archbishop, since Justus is told the limited circumstances in which he may wear it ; however, the same phrasing occurs in the letter conveying the pallium to Archbishop Augustine, also quoted in Bede.

In this view, Bede has conflated the letter conveying the pallium with the letter congratulating Justus on the conversion, which according to Bede ’ s account was seven or so years earlier ; but the grammatical details on which this suggestion is based are not unique to this letter, and as a result it is usually considered to be a single composition.

It also appears that the letter to Justus was written after the letters to Edwin and Æthelburg, rather than before, as Bede has it ; Boniface's letter to Edwin and Æthelburg indicates he had the news from messengers, but when he wrote to Justus he had heard from the king himself.

Bede says nothing of his origins, but his connections with men of noble ancestry suggest that his own family was well-to-do.

Because of his widespread correspondence with others throughout the British Isles, and due to the fact that many of the letters imply that Bede had met his correspondents, it is likely that Bede travelled to some other places, although nothing further about timing or locations can be guessed.

Jaruman was not the first bishop of Lichfield ; Bede mentions a predecessor, Trumhere, but nothing is known about Trumhere's activities or who appointed him.

However, Chad was the teacher of Bede's own teacher, Trumbert, so Bede has an obvious personal interest in rehabilitating him, to say nothing of his loyalty to the Northumbrian establishment, which not only supported him but had played a notable part in Christianising England.

19th century scholar Jacob Grimm notes, while no other source mentions the goddesses Rheda and Ēostre, saddling Bede, a " father of the church, who everywhere keeps heathenism at a distance, and tells us less than he knows " with the invention of the goddesses Rheda and Ēostre would be uncritical, and that " there is nothing improbable in them, nay the first of them is justified by clear traces in the vocabularies of the German tribes.

The objections of the Council of Paris concerned penitentials of uncertain authorship ; by this time there were many manuscripts that attributed penitential decisions to certain authorities ( e. g., the Venerable Bede ) who had nothing to do with them.

The Venerable Bede says in The Reckoning of Time that this month Eostur is the root of the word Easter.

This is unlikely as Bede tells us that they were all slaughtered by the Saxons under Cædwalla.

King Alfred the Great and the chronicler Æthelweard identified this place with the district that is now called Angeln, in the province of Schleswig ( Slesvig ) ( though it may then have been of greater extent ), and this identification agrees with the indications given by Bede.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

The Liber Vitae of Durham Cathedral includes a list of priests ; two are named Bede, and one of these is presumably Bede himself.

Some manuscripts of the Life of Cuthbert, one of Bede's own works, mention that Cuthbert's own priest was named Bede ; it is possible that this priest is the other name listed in the Liber Vitae.

The dedication stone for the church has survived to the present day ; it is dated 23 April 685, and as Bede would have been required to assist with menial tasks in his day-to-day life it is possible that he helped in building the original church.

There might have been minor orders ranking below a deacon ; but there is no record of whether Bede held any of these offices.

A 6th-century Greek and Latin manuscript of Acts that is believed to have been used by Bede survives and is now in the Bodleian Library ; it is known as the Codex Laudianus.

Bede may also have worked on one of the Latin bibles that were copied at Jarrow, one of which is now held by the Laurentian Library in Florence.

Translations of this phrase differ, and it is quite uncertain whether Bede intended to say that he was cured of a speech problem, or merely that he was inspired by the saint's works.

The see of York was elevated to an archbishopric in 735, and it is likely that Bede and Ecgbert discussed the proposal for the elevation during his visit.

Bede also travelled to the monastery of Lindisfarne, and at some point visited the otherwise unknown monastery of a monk named, a visit that is mentioned in a letter to that monk.

Nothhelm, a correspondent of Bede's who assisted him by finding documents for him in Rome, is known to have visited Bede, though the date cannot be determined beyond the fact that it was after Nothhelm's visit to Rome.

It is the most widely copied Old English poem, and appears in 45 manuscripts, but its attribution to Bede is not absolutely certain — not all manuscripts name Bede as the author, and the ones that do are of later origin than those that do not.