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- noun Plural form of
Northumbrian .
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Examples
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The Northumbrians are a proud people, and it is small wonder that they object to be governed by an absent earl.
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Northumbria was once part of Scotland and, at the Battle of the Standard in 1138, Northumbrians and Cumbrians fought for the Scottish king against the northern English barons.
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Northumbria was once part of Scotland and, at the Battle of the Standard in 1138, Northumbrians and Cumbrians fought for the Scottish king against the northern English barons.
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Over the years I have noticed many Northumbrians bear Scottish surnames, including your feature writer Alex Niven.
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The conventional English history is that Æthelstan annexed York in 927, having cowed Danish Mercia, and went on to force submission from the Scots, Welsh and English Northumbrians at a ceremony in far-north Cumberland later the same year.
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Over the years I have noticed many Northumbrians bear Scottish surnames, including your feature writer Alex Niven.
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As far as I know, there's nothing to say whether was built by the Northumbrians in a failed attempt to defend against the Viking threat, or by the Vikings repairing the fortification they'd just captured so they could hold it against further attack, or a bit of both.
The Anglian Tower, York Carla 2010
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After Eardwulf, king of the Northumbrians, had been conducted back into his kingdom and the papal and imperial legates had begun their return journey, one of them, the deacon Ealdwulf, was captured by pirates and taken by them to Britain.
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Meanwhile, the king of the Northumbrians, from the island of Britain, Eardwulf by name, came to the emperor while he was still at Nijmegen; he had been driven from his kingdom and native land.
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Northumbrians; each of whom reigned thirty winters.
Aelle of Deira Carla 2009
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