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Notes

1. On the case for accepting Bede's account, see Wallace-Hadrill 1988:65.
2. See, for example, Alcock 1987:253; Clarkson 1993; Cessford 1997; McDiarmid 1983:5.
3. For the idea that Rheged included both Galloway and Catterick, see Williams 1975:xxxvi-xlvii, and the references cited there.
4. In John Morris's much-maligned book (Morris 1973), an attempt was made to write a continuous narrative history of the fifth to seventh centuries, but relied too heavily on uncritical synthesis of a plethora of dubious sources.
5. The theory that Edinburgh was subjected to a Bernician siege in 638, during Oswald's kingship, is discussed in Jackson (1959).

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