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Bede recounts Oswald's generosity to the poor and to strangers, and tells a story highlighting this characteristic: on one occasion, at Easter, Oswald was sitting at dinner with Aidan, and had " a silver dish full of dainties before him ", when a servant, whom Oswald " had appointed to relieve the poor ", came in and told Oswald that a crowd of the poor were in the streets begging alms from the king.
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Bede recounts Edwin's baptism, and that of his chief men, on 12 April 627.
It is believed that Roman Lindum ( Lincoln ) was the capital of Lindsey: the continuity of the place name suggests continuity of settlement traditions: in 625, Bede recounts, the missionary Paulinus of York was received by the praefectus of Lindum.
Bede recounts that earlier on the day that Eanflæd was born, an assassin sent by Cwichelm of Wessex made an attempt on Edwin's life.
Bede recounts that Queen Eormenburh and Cuthbert were visiting Carlisle that day, and that Cuthbert had a premonition of the defeat.
For example, although Bede recounts Wilfrid's missionary activities, he does not give a full account of his conflict with Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury, or his ambition and aristocratic lifestyle.
Saint Bede recounts that during this fast Saint Cuthbert appeared to the monk Eadmer with instructions that the coffin should be taken to Dun Holm.
Bede recounts the burial thus ( 4. 11 ):
Bede and Oswald's
He was given a strongly positive assessment by the historian Bede, writing a little less than a century after Oswald's death, who regarded Oswald as a saintly king ; it is also Bede who is the main source for present-day historical knowledge of Oswald.
Bede says that Oswald held imperium for the eight years of his rule ( both Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle say that Oswald's reign was actually considered to be nine years, the ninth year being accounted for by assigning to Oswald the year preceding his rule, " on account of the heathenism practised by those who had ruled that one year between him and Edwin "), and was the most powerful king in Britain.
Bede makes the claim that Oswald " brought under his dominion all the nations and provinces of Britain ", which, as Bede notes, was divided by language between the English, Britons, Scots, and Picts ; however, he seems to undermine his own claim when he mentions at another point in his history that it was Oswald's brother Oswiu who made tributary the Picts and Scots.
Oswald apparently controlled the Kingdom of Lindsey, given the evidence of a story told by Bede regarding the moving of Oswald's bones to a monastery there ; Bede says that the monks rejected the bones initially because Oswald had ruled over them as a foreign king.
" Accordingly, Bede reports that the hand and arm remained uncorrupted after Oswald's death.
Bede mentions that Oswald's brother Oswiu, who succeeded Oswald in Bernicia, retrieved Oswald's remains in the year after his death.
The historian Bede, writing in the next century, portrayed Oswald as a saintly figure in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ; his desire to portray Oswald in a positive light may have led him to omit mention of Oswald's aggressive warfare.
Bede reports a number of miracles attributed to Oswald's bones and to the spot where he died.
Evidence from the eighth century Anglo-Saxon historian, Bede points to the Picts also being subjugated by the Northumbrians during Oswald's reign, and that this subjugation continued into the reign of his successor, Oswiu.
Bede and poor
Oswald, according to Bede, then immediately had his food given to the poor and even had the dish broken up and distributed.
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This is unlikely as Bede tells us that they were all slaughtered by the Saxons under Cædwalla.
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 relates the story of Augustine's mission from Rome, and tells how the British clergy refused to assist Augustine in the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons.
Whereas Adomnán just tells us that Columba visited Bridei, Bede relates a later, perhaps Pictish tradition, whereby the saint actually converts the Pictish king.
As of 668, Bede tells that Ebroin was running the nation's foreign policy and internal security.
Bede tells that Ebroin waylaid an Englishman returning from Rome, for fear that the Byzantine Emperor ( Constans II, residing in Syracuse ( Sicily )) was plotting an alliance against his rule.
Bede tells us, in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, that Ecgfrith was held as a hostage " at the court of Queen Cynwise in the province of the Mercians " when Penda of Mercia invaded Northumbria in 654 or 655.
Bede tells of Æthelfrith's great successes over the Britons, while also noting his paganism ( the conversion of Northumbria did not begin until a decade after his death ): he " ravaged the Britons more than all the great men of the English, insomuch that he might be compared to Saul, once king of the Israelites, excepting only this, that he was ignorant of the true religion.
Bede tells that Ine was " of the blood royal ", by which he means the royal line of the Gewisse, the early West Saxon tribal name.
" Although victorious, Æthelfrith suffered losses ; Bede tells us his brother Theodbald was killed with all his following.
658-680 AD., and Bede tells us that he was an illiterate herdsman to a monastery who one night in a dream learned how to sing beautiful Christian verses praising God's name.
Bede tells how after her death, Æthelthryth's bones were disinterred by her sister and successor, Abbess Seaxburh of Ely, and buried in a white, marble coffin from Cambridge.
Bede tells a story of a companion of Coenred's whose sins led him to damnation despite Coenred's pleas that he should repent and reform.
Bede tells that Sæberht converted to Christianity in 604 and was baptised by Mellitus, while his sons remained pagan.
Bede tells us that he obtained his information about Chad and his brother, Cedd, from the monks of Lastingham, where both were abbots.
Bede tells us that Egbert himself was of the Anglian nobility, although the monks sent to Ireland were of all classes.
Bede tells us of a man called Owin ( Owen ), who appeared at the door of Lastingham.
Bede tells us that Colmán, the bishop of the Northumbrians at the time of the Synod, had left for Scotland after the Synod went against him.
Bede tells us that Alfrid sought a bishop for himself and his own people.
Bede tells us that he then lingered abroad for some time after his ordination.
Bede tells us that he travelled first to Canterbury, where he found that Archbishop Deusdedit was dead and his replacement was still awaited.
" Bede also tells us that Chad was teaching the values of Aidan and Cedd.
Bede tells us that the net effect of his efforts on the Church was that the Irish monks who still lived in Northumbria either came fully into line with Catholic practices or left for home.
Bede tells us that Chad was actually the third bishop sent to Wulfhere, making him the fifth bishop of the Mercians.
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