Bob the TravelerΓlla, 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
Today is the feast day of Saint Ecgberht, early 8th century an Anglo-Saxon monk of #Northumbria and Bishop of Lindisfarne https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/hadrians-wall/?s=mb #travel #Britain #history
LordWoolamalooTaken this day, 2011, the gorgeous Bamburgh Castle on the Northumbrian coast
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/5483521962/in/photostream/lightbox/
#architecture #history #histoire #BamburghCastle #Castle #Chateau #photography #photographie #BlackAndWhitePhotography #NorthernEngland #Northumbria
Bamburgh Castle 01
Taken this day, 2011, "I heard the ripple washing in the reeds..."
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/5497409269/in/photostream/lightbox/
Flooded area next to Bamburgh Castle, which put me in mind of Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur. For some reason this is one of my most viewed pics on Flickr (186,000 +)
#photography #photographie
#Northumbria #BamburghCastle #MorteDArthur
"I heard the ripple washing in the reeds"
JdeBPThis would explain the 'OR' ligature letter, little known outwith Northumbria. (-:
50+ Music"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".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY-TNeJ_gJM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY-TNeJ_gJM
Scarborough Fair - Lyrics - SarahBrightman #englishsongs #music #lyricsvideo #aivoice #lovesong
jdmccafferty15 Jan: feast #otd of St. Ceolwulf d. 760x764 - king of #Northumbria then a monk of #Lindsifarne (KTraynor)
TKSST β’ seethis.tv ππͺβ¨π§β οΈ A #Northumbria University expert warns that bottled #water isn't as pure as marketing suggests, with 2025 #research finding high bacterial contamination and studies detecting tens of thousands of #plastic particles per liter in some products.
Unlike tap water which faces strict daily monitoring, bottled water is regulated as packaged #food with less frequent testing, potentially exposing consumers to #microplastics, chemical leaching, and hormone-disrupting compounds from plastic containers.
π https://www.sciencealert.com/bottled-water-isnt-as-pure-as-you-might-think-expert-warns
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