I tripped and bought another book. Clumsy. #medievalsky

Nov 7: Feast of Willibrord (658-739). Northumbrian who studied at Hrypis (Ripon) and Ráith Melsigi (Clonmesh, Ireland). He evangelised in Frisia and became archbishop of the Frisians in 695 with a see at Traiectum (Utrecht). He founded a monastery at Echternach, Luxembourg. 📸Rp #medievalsky

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Wilfrid I, bishop of York, attested a charter of Osric, king of the Hwicce, #OTD in 675. It was a grant to Abbess Bertana of 100 hides of land at Bath, Somerset, for a nunnery. Wilfrid may have been in the south for Earcenwald, bishop of London’s consecration. 📸PMJ Crook #medievalsky

God’s country 😉

Bede wrote a letter to his former pupil Ecgberht, bishop of York, #OTD in 734. He suggested reforms, condemned those who founded pseudo-monasteries for temporal benefits and voiced fears for the military strength of Northumbria should too many youths enter said institutions. #medievalsky

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The Quiraing, Isle of Skye, photo by Yorkshire-based landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.

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The trial of William de St Calais, bishop of Durham, began at Sarisberie (Old Sarum, Wiltshire) #OTD in 1088. He was implicated in that year’s plot to supplant William II ‘Rufus’, king of the English, with his brother Robert II, duke of Normandy. The bishop was ultimately exiled. #medievalsky

Nov 2: Feast of the translation of Æbbe (†683), abbess of Coludaesburh (Coldingham). Daughter of Æthelfrith, king of Bernicia. Famed for her wisdom but once warned by Adomnán about the relaxed state of her community. St Abb’s Head and Ebchester are named after her. 📸DigVentures #medievalsky

A Viking force known as the Great Army captured and sacked York #OTD in 866, before moving on to the Tyne. A tradition recorded in the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto claims the attack was led by Ubba, ‘duke of the Frisians’. 📸York Archaeological Trust #medievalsky

Æthelwald Moll, king of the Northumbrians, was married to an Æthelthryth at Catrice (Catterick, North Yorkshire) #OTD in 762. 📸Oliver Dixon #medievalsky

Nov 1: Feast of All Saints (All Hallows). Ecgberht, the first archbishop of York (†766), brought the feast to England, where it is found as a marginal addition to the Martyrology of Bede. #medievalsky

On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey

A new consideration of the chronology of the key settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney - shows that the buildings here belong firmly in the Pictish tradition. This leads to a wider consideration of the timings and character of the Viking Age in the Northern Isles. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The East Ord Cross was found by detectorists on the bank of the River Tweed #OTD in 2019. The early medieval gold pendant bears runes which spell out the previously unknown name Eadruf. This could be the name Eardwulf disguised in a slightly cryptic form. 📸Durham County Council #medievalsky

Oscytel, archbishop of York from 956, died #OTD in 971. He had also been bishop of Dorchecestre (Dorchester-on-Thames). Edwald succeeded him at York. 📸York Archaeological Trust #medievalsky

Oct 31: Feast of Begu (†660), nun of Hacanos (Hackness, North Yorkshire) who had a vision of the death and ascension to heaven of Hild, founder of Streanæshalch (Whitby) and Hackness. 📸Tom Middlemass #medievalsky

Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

Æthelwald Moll, king of the Northumbrians, was driven from the kingdom at Pincanheale #OTD in 765. His reign had witnessed the hard winter of 763-4 when ‘deep snow hardened into ice... trees and shrubs for the most part perished’, according to Symeon of Durham. 📸Rosa-Maria Rinkl #medievalsky

Heardred was consecrated bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham) by Eanbald II, archbishop of York, and Hygbald, bishop of Lindisfarne, #OTD in 797. He died in 800, and Eadberht succeeded him. 📸Kevin Wilbraham #medievalsky

Oct 30: Feast of Talorcan, Pictish churchman whose main cult seems to have been at Fordyce, Aberdeenshire. It is possible the Tolarggan Maphan (†726), mentioned in the Annals of Ulster, relates to him. 📸Christopher Gillan #medievalsky

Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland: Church-Raiding, Politics and Kingship by Colmán Etchingham boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...

So I just watched 28 Years Later and felt compelled to create this.

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Oct 28: Feast of Dorbéne mac Altaíni (†713), abbot of Iona. Scribe of the earliest surviving copy of Adomnán’s Life of Columba. Fáelchú mac Dorbéni succeeded him. 📸Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen #medievalsky

Why’s it taken me so long to watch this? Brilliant.

Æthelstan, king of the English, died #OTD in 939, allowing Óláfr Guðrøðsson to take York back into Viking hands. Óláfr, as king of Dublin; Causantín II, king of Alba; and Owain, king of Strathclyde, had been defeated by Æthelstan at the Battle of Brunanburh. 📸Athelstan Museum #medievalsky

Edward the Confessor, holding court in Oxford, agreed to Northumbrian rebels’ demands to outlaw Earl Tostig #OTD in 1065. The king sent Harold Godwineson, earl of Wessex, to inform the northerners, who were camped in Northampton. #medievalsky

Oct 27: Feast of Odrán († c.563), Irish monk after whom Ionan cemetery Reilig Odhráin is named. One of Columba’s first companions on the island. 📸August Schwerdfeger #medievalsky

Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxons, died #OTD 899. St Cuthbert appeared in a vision to the then king of the West Saxons as he sought refuge in the Somerset marshes, vowing he would defeat his foes. This he did at the Battle of Ethandune (Edington, Wiltshire) in 878. 📸CNG

The Westness brooch-pin formed part of a Viking-Age grave disturbed by a farmer at Westness, Rousay, Orkney, #OTD in 1963. It is silver decorated with gold, amber and glass. The grave contained the remains of a young woman and newborn child. 📸National Museums Scotland #medievalsky

Oct 26: Feast of Cedd (†664), bishop of the East Saxons. Brother of St Chad and educated at Lindisfarne, he evangelised in Mercia and Essex. He founded monasteries including Lestingeham (Lastingham, North Yorkshire), where he died of plague. 📸Helge Klaus Rieder #medievalsky

Oct 26: Feast of Eata (†686), bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham). Educated by Aidan, he became a monk, and eventually abbot, at Mailros (Melrose). Tenures as abbot of Lindisfarne and bishop of Bernicia also preceded his time at Hexham. Tunberht succeeded him. 📸Kevin Wilbraham #medievalsky

Oct 26: Feast of Beóán (Bean), first bishop of Mortlach, the forerunner of the diocese of Aberdeen in the C11th. Mortlach Kirk 📸Coldupnorth #medievalsky

Your reminder.

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Oct 25: Feast of the translation of John of Beverley, known then as In Dera Uudu, ‘In the Wood of the Deirans’ (†721). Whitby monk who became bishop of Hexham then founded Beverley as bishop of York. Archbishop Ælfric put his relics in a bejewelled shrine #OTD 1037. 📸Tony Grist #medievalsky

National Museums Scotland announced it had acquired a rare, C8th, gold sword pommel #OTD in 2022. A detectorist found it at Blair Drummond, Stirling, in 2019. Encrusted with garnets, it has eyes and a beak on each end. 📸National Museums Scotland #medievalsky

Oct 24: Feast of Cóeti (†712), bishop of Iona. Guarantor of Adomnán’s Lex Innocentium, ‘Law of the Innocents’, which protected women, children and clergy, especially during warfare. #medievalsky

A number of manuscripts in the renowned Cotton collection were damaged or destroyed in the fire at Ashburnham House, London, #OTD in 1731. Asser’s biography of King Alfred of Wessex was lost. The Lindisfarne Gospels was among those to survive. #medievalsky

Scottish Society for Northern Studies day conference!! lots on Picts and Vikings www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-... #scotland #history #archaeology #medievalsky

So I was listening to some bangers from this cornerstone of my yoof, and 15-year-old son pipes up: ‘That’s not even music - just a bunch of drums.’ Kids these days.

That’s next year’s calendar sorted 😍

The C7th Holderness Cross was sold to a dealer for £55,000 at auction in London #OTD in 1999. The gold-and-garnet pectoral cross was then acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, where it went on display from November 25 that year. #medievalsky

Oct 21: Feast of Tuda (†664), bishop of Northumbria. Roman Easter adherent appointed just after the Synod of Whitby. He died of plague. #medievalsky

Oct 20: Feast of Acca (†740), bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham) 709-32, disciple of Wilfrid, scholar. Acca enriched his church, which was dedicated to St Andrew, with a large library, works of art, altars, relics and sacred vessels. Frithuberht succeeded him. 📸Kevin Wilbraham #medievalsky

Oct 17: Feast of the translation of Æthelthryth (†679), abbess. Richard, abbot of Elyg (Ely, Cambridgeshire), moved her remains into the new Norman church #OTD in 1106. She was wife to Ecgfrith, king of the Northumbrians, then nun at Coludaesburg (Coldingham) and founder of Ely. #medievalsky

Oct 17: Feast of Regulus (Rule) (C4th). Greek who followed an angel’s request to bear some of St Andrew’s relics into ‘northern parts’. Arriving in Fife, the angel brought him to a halt. There Rule built a church to house the relics, which was later called St Andrews. #medievalsky