Northumbria
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Northumbria was an early medieval English kingdom, existing between 654 and 1066 AD, at its height spanning modern-day Northern England and Southern Scotland.
Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels, c. 700, featuring zoomorphic knot-work.
The Book of Kells, (folio 292r), c. 800, showing the lavishly decorated text that opens the Gospel of John
Sword pommel from the Bedale Hoard, inlaid with gold foil.
Gosforth Cross, view from the north-west
Deira
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Deira was an area of Post-Roman Britain, and a later Anglian kingdom.
Northumbria
…people or province north of the Humber", as opposed to the people south of the Humber Estuary. What was to become Northumbria started as two kingdoms, Deira in the south and Bernicia in the north. Conflict in the first half of the seventh century ended with the murder of the last king of Deira in 651, and…
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