Note 53 — Chapter VIII · EDWIN OF DEIRA.

That of Richard of Hexham (circa 1141. Prologue to his History). Simeon of Durham (circa 1104) says that “all the country between Tees and Tyne was then [in the seventh century] a waste wilderness, the habitation of wild animals, and therefore subject to no man’s sway” (Vita Oswaldi, cap. i.).