Capitolo 76
Mercia anchors he/she was pagan. But, in 655, Hangs it made a last attempt
against Northumbria that he had harried year after year, and you/he/she was met
from Oswiu to Winwidfield, Leeds nearby; the Cristiano they were successful, and
Hangs you/he/she was killed, together with thirty real people--small principles of
the tributary Mercian affirms, without doubt. His/her child, Peada, the Cristiano
ealdorman of the Middle English, succeeded him/it, and the Mercians became
Cristiano of the Pictishes or the Irishmen type. "Their first bishop", it says
Baeda, "it was Diuma that died and you/he/she was buried among the Middle English. The
according to it was Cellach that abandoned his/her diocese and he/she returned during his
life in Scotland (perhaps Ireland, but more probably Scottish
I reign in Argyllshire). Both of these they were from birth Irish. The third one
it was Trumhere, from run an English, but cultured and it ordered from the
Irish." This way the Roman Christianity spread on the whole one of south of England
of the Wash (safe only pagan Sussex): while the Irish Church had done
his/her way on the whole north, from the Wash to the estuary of Before. The
Roman influence can be traced partly the alphabet to replace Roman
the old runes English. Runic registrations are rare in the south, where
they was considered pagan relics, and so it destroyed: but they is
comparatively common in the north. Runics appears on the coins of the
first Christian king of Mercia, Peada and AEthelred, but it dies out soon
under their successors.
Heathendom was fairly now defeated. It only survived in Sussex, cut
away from the rest of England from the belt of forest of the Weald. The next one
test of strength clearly has to lie among Rome and Iona.
The northern bishops and abbots traced their succession, not to
Augustine, but to Columba. Cuthberht, the apostle English of the north,
who really converted the _people_ of Northumbria, as first
missionaries had converted his/her _kings_, he/she deduced his/her orders from Iona.
Rome or Ireland, were now the practical question of the Church English.