Quotes About Mercia

Tell Ragnall," I told him, "that the Saxons of Mercia are coming. Tell him that his dead will number in the thousands. Tell him that his own death is just days away. Tell him that promise comes from Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

superb book Mercia and the Making of England (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000).

Mercia was the last of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to emerge.

Power in Mercia passed to a new king named Coenwulf,

were now subject to the authority of a single secular ruler: the king of Mercia.

According to Bede, writing at the beginning of the eighth century, Essex, Sussex and Wessex were planted by the Saxons; East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria by the Angles; the Jutes took Kent and the Isle of Wight.