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   From: allan@EASYNET.CO.UK   
      
   "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   news:416f3655@news.greennet.net...   
   >   
   > > The Anglian cavalry was in fact under seige at Dun Gwarai aka Bamburgh.   
   >   
   > There was no record of any Anglian cavalry at that time and the Anglian   
   > forces were not under siege at Bamburgh.  They were more properly under   
   > siege on Lindisfarne.   
      
   For anyone else unfortunate enough to read Boggies/Flinks drivel I'd   
   forgotten to mention the reference of "History of the Britons, by Nennius"   
      
   "Chapter 63...........  Against him fought four kings, Urien, and Ryderthen,   
   and Gaulllauc, and Morcant.  Theodoric fought bravely, together with his   
   sons, against that Urien.  But at that time sometimes the enemy and   
   sometimes our countrymen were defeated, and he shut them up three days and   
   three nights in the island of Metcaut, and whilst he was on expedition he   
   was murdered, at the instance of Morcant"   
      
   As I'd previously said Metcaut is generally recognised as Lindisfarne.  In   
   fact there are no other realistic possibilities in the said area in   
   question.  Certainly not Bamburgh which is no island and is mentioned   
   elsewhere in the same chapter anyway.   
      
   Allan   
      
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