Northumbrians — Minor Figures

21 figures from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Alchfled

princess · first appears Book III · Chap. XXI

• Book III · Chap. XXI · parent: Oswy “came to Oswy, king of the Northumbrians, requesting to have his daughter Alchfled given him to wife”
• Book III · Chap. XXI · courtship with Peada “came to Oswy, king of the Northumbrians, requesting to have his daughter Alchfled given him to wife”

Ethilwin

reeve of Oswy · first appears Book III · Chap. XIV

• Book III · Chap. XIV · employer: Oswy “and Oswy, by the hands of his reeve, Ethilwin, foully slew him and the thegn aforesaid.”

Aelfric

nobleman · first appears Book III · Chap. I

• Book III · Chap. I · child: Osric “Osric, the son of his uncle Aelfric”
• Book III · Chap. I · younger kin: Edwin “Osric, the son of his uncle Aelfric”

Forthhere

thegn · first appears Book II · Chap. IX

• Book II · Chap. IX · sworn: Edwin “Being then attacked on all sides with swords, in the confusion he also slew impiously with his dagger another of the thegns, whose name was Forthhere.”
• Book II · Chap. IX · with Eumer “Being then attacked on all sides with swords, in the confusion he also slew impiously with his dagger another of the thegns, whose name was Forthhere.”

Lilla

thegn and servant · first appears Book II · Chap. IX

• Book II · Chap. IX · sworn: Edwin “When Lilla, the king’s most devoted servant, saw this, having no buckler at hand to protect the king from death, he at once interposed his own body to receive the blow”
• Book II · Chap. IX · with Eumer “When Lilla, the king’s most devoted servant, saw this, having no buckler at hand to protect the king from death, he at once interposed his own body to receive the blow; but the enemy struck home with such force, that he wounded the king through the body of the slaughtered thegn.”

Aebba

abbess · first appears Book IV · Chap. XIX

• Book IV · Chap. XIX · younger kin: Egfrid “the monastery of the Abbess Aebba, who was aunt to King Egfrid”
• Book IV · Chap. XXV · with Adamnan “She with good cause being much troubled at that prediction, called the man to her, and straitly questioned him concerning the matter and how he came to know it.”

Berct

general · first appears Book IV · Chap. XXVI

• Book IV · Chap. XXVI · sworn: Egfrid “Egfrid, king of the Northumbrians, sending his general, Berct, with an army into Ireland”

Heiu

nun · first appears Book IV · Chap. XXIII

• Book IV · Chap. XXIII · sworn: Aidan “Heiu, who is said to have been the first woman in the province of the Northumbrians who took upon her the vows and habit of a nun, being consecrated by Bishop Aidan”