
The First Kingdom

From around 4000 BC, thousands of small communities slowly evolved towards the strong tribal kingdoms that were eventually to confront the invading Roman army.
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Between the ages of twelve, when he fled Bernicia, and thirty, when he returned, Oswald was transformed from an English heathen refugee into a crusading Irish Christian prince.