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Posts in The Copybook for ‘The Feast of St Paulinus of York’

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King Edwin and the Hand of Destiny Clay Lane

Forced from his throne and threatened with murder, Edwin makes a curious bargain for his deliverance.

Deprived of his throne in about 604, King Edwin of Deira and Bernicia — later known as Northumbria — fled York and went south to Mercia, only to find his usurper, brother-in-law and mortal enemy, Æthelfrith, still pursuing him to the death. But a night-time visitor gave him a new hope, and a curious sign to remember it by.

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