Not if you were St Oswald, as 5 August was the day he died... and his armed Christianizing and expulsion of British influence from his territory suggests that he wasn't a particularly pluralist ruler (though nor were his opponents)... but the Northumberland flag in my userpic traces its origin to Bede's account of Oswald's standard as king of the ( Read more... )

Written by Henry Hawley, ed. C.T. Atkinson, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research vol. 25 (1947), p 154 ( Read more... )