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Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. Feast days, #OnThisDay, archaeology news and book releases.

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May 8: Feast of Wiro (†c.753), monk and bishop of Utrecht. Apostle of Frisia, this Northumbrian’s cult centred on Odilienberg, where he and companions Odger and Plechelm had built a church and monastery. Joined Boniface in his letter of correction to Æthelbald of Mercia in 746.

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