ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AT FRILFORD. 



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rule from the Humber to the Forth. If ^thilfrith was a heathen, 

 such no doubt were his followers ; and, if the whole of Northumbria 

 was heathen in 603, its two component sub-kingdoms of Bernicia 

 and Deira were, it cannot be doubted, at least as pagan for the period 

 little short of a couple of generations which intervened between the 

 date of the battle of Dsegsastan and that of the landing, before a.d. 

 547, of Ida the Flame-bearer at Flamborough Head. The bones, 

 however, of the unsung heroes of these wars have not previously- 

 been found in cremation urns, at least in any abundance, though 

 contracted Teutonic burials are common enough between the two 

 latitudes mentioned. 



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