"Scarborough Fair" (#Roud 12, #Child 2) is a traditional Northern English #ballad. The song lists a number of #impossibleTasks given to a former lover who lives in #ScarboroughNorthYorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was most common in Yorkshire and #Northumbria, where it was sung to various melodies, often using #DorianMode, with refrains resembling "#parsley, #sage, #rosemary and #thyme".
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Stunning Alnwick castle in Northumbria. #alnwickcastle #northumbria #photography

Osric, king of #Northumbria, died OTD in 729 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/hadrians-wall/?s=mb #travel #Britain #history

Today is the feast day of John of Beverley, an English bishop active in the kingdom of #Northumbria in the early 8th century https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/hadrians-wall/?s=mb #travel #Britain #history

Today is the feast day of Wilfrid; born a Northumbrian noble, he studied at Lindisfarne, Canterbury, Gaul, and Rome, returning to #Northumbria around 660 he became abbot of a new monastery at Ripon https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/hadrians-wall/?s=mb #travel

Æthelred I was the king of #Northumbria from 774 to 779 and again from 790 until he was murdered OTD in 796 in Corbridge by a group of conspiring nobles https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/hadrians-wall/?s=mb #travel #Britain #history

King Edwin of #Northumbria was converted to Christianity OTD in 627 by Paulinus, bishop of York https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/hadrians-wall/?s=mb #travel #Britain #history

Today is the feast day of Æthelburh of Kent, an early Anglo-Saxon queen consort of #Northumbria, the second wife of King Edwin https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/hadrians-wall/?s=mb #travel #Britain #history

Ælla, who died OTD in 867, was King of #Northumbria; according to the Norse sagas he captured the semi-legendary Swedish-Danish Viking leader Ragnar Lodbrok and put him to death in a pit of snakes https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/hadrians-wall/?s=mb #travel #Britain #history

Today is the feast day of Alkmund of Derby; exiled from #Northumbria for over 20 years due to dynastic struggles, he returned with an army but was killed https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/hadrians-wall/?s=mb #travel #Britain #history