A 12thC reliquary of St Oswald of Northumbria, killed by the pagan Penda of Mercia #OTD, 5 August 642: http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/view?oid=478608 …pic.twitter.com/F1kCdbi0gG
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Incidentally, this is the origin of the Lincolnshire saying 'do you come from Bardney?' if you leave the door open! http://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/do-you-come-from-bardney.html …
Bardney village sign; makes reference to Bede's tale of St Oswald at Bardney via a picture of an open door :) http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1243832 pic.twitter.com/navzFaokgm
Incidentally, St Oswald removed to Gloucester in 909—suggested that some cult+community may have survived Vikings until then at Bardney… >
> Certainly, some evidence for an Anglo-Saxon cult & community surviving at the nearby Louth monastery into L10thC…https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/774535313263820800 …
Pillar of light ....the venerable mead at work?
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