Research Results For 'Bernicia'

BARNACLE GOOSE

The Barnacle Goose (Anser Bernicia or leucopsis) is a summer visitant of the northern seas, in size rather smaller than the common wild goose, and having the forehead and cheeks white, the upper body and neck black. A fable asserts that the crustaceans called barnacles changed into geese, and various theories have been framed to account for its origin. Max Muller supposes the geese were originally called Hiberniculoe or Irish geese, and that barnacle is a corruption of this; but the resemblance of a barnacle to a goose hanging by the head may account for it. The Brent Goose is also sometimes called the Barnacle Goose, but the two should be discriminated.
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ADDA

Adda was the eldest son of Ida and king of Bernicia in 560.
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AIDAN

Aidan was king of the Dalriada around 600. He was crowned by St Columba at Iona and completed the separation of Dalriada from the parent kingdom in Ireland, and in 588 conquered the Isle of Man. He attempted to extend his kingdom south by attacking Ethelfrith, king of Bernicia, but was defeated in 603. He died in 606.
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EANFRID

Eanfrid was king of Bernicia in 634.
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EDWARD THE ELDER

Edward the Elder was king of England. He was the son of Alfred the Great and was born about 870 and crowned king of England in 902 and spent his reign warring against the Danes, from whom he regained most of central England and in 924 his overlordship of Britain was recognised by the king of the Scots by the English of Bernicia and by the Britons of Strathclyde. He died in 924.
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ETHELFRITH

Ethelfrith (the Fierce) was king of Bernicia in 593.
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ETHELRIC

Ethelric was king of Bernicia in 588.
Ethelric was king of the East Angles in 654.
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FREODWULF

Freodwulf was king of Bernicia in 573.
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GLAPPA

Glappa was king of Bernicia in 567.
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HEODWULF

Heodwulf was king of Bernicia in 572.
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