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During the revival of the Pelagian controversy at perhaps Llywarch Hen's or Pelagius' beckoning, a new Welsh king became prominent; Cadwalla to Bede and Cadwallon to Llywarch Hen. I quote from Bede II. Chapter 20: "King Edwin is killed, and Paulinus returns to Kent, where he receives the Bishopric of Rochester [A.D. 633]. "The glorious reign of Edwin over England {Britain?} and Britons alike {Then why was he killed?} lasted seventeen years, during the last of which, as I have said, he laboured for the kingdom of Christ {In An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair, a very disjointed, poorly written, and poorly researched book, he states: "In about 613 Aethelfrith of Bernicia won a victory over the Welsh near Chester, but it is not known whether he made his approach westwards from York or southwards from Carlisle and the consequences of his victory are not easy to estimate{?}. On several occasions in the seventh century the various armies engaged in the struggle for supremacy in the north operated at great distances from their homelands, and it would be unwise {So you are admitting you are an unwise man, Blair.} to assume that Aethelfrith's victory near Chester was part of a war of conquest {Obviously.} followed by settlement in the area of victory{?}(p.47-bottom)."

I believe that the Northumbrian kings had been either waging a heathen idol worshipping war on the Christian Welsh and Arthur or Cadwallon for many years during both the seventh and eighth and ninth centuries and King Arthur, Cadwallon, and his Druid priest Myrddin, or in later years 150-200 or beyond, Llywarch Hen, lived on and on and on. Arthur may have had his physical body killed several times, but I swear that he always ended up in that old 'snake' Pelagius' dark cave where these, recorded by Christian, predictions came from regarding the prophecies of Pope Germanus' coming, etc.

Blair goes on: "Both Welsh and English sources indicate that Edwin conducted a vigorous warfare against the Welsh. He is said to have besieged {Attacked?} Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd {Which means, in Welsh: 'Holy-White-Plurality'} in the island of Priestholm off the coast of Anglesey and to have conquered both Anglesey and Man. It is difficult to judge the significance of these conquests, but Gwynedd seems not to have suffered any lasting consequences from Edwin's attacks. In 633 Cadwallon himself, the most vigorous opponent of the northern English at this date, crossed the Pennines and defeated and killed Edwin in Hatfield Chase on the borderland between Mercia and Northumbria...Cadwallon himself was killed{?} a year later after being defeated by Oswald near the Roman Wall north of Hexham {In Bede, Cadwalla reappears again in 686 as King of Wessex, rules for only two years, after killing the Christian Kentish king, probably in memory of the first landing of the Roman Christians on the island of Great Britain in Kent 100 years earlier and all the trouble they caused his Christian Britons or Welsh. Welsh is Northumbrian for slave. Cadwallon then goes to Rome at the young age of about 30 years old {I'm quoting Bede.} to be baptized and die. He supposedly dies shortly thereafter{?}.

The story of Cadwalla continues in Bede, Book III., Chapter 1: "During the whole of Edwin's reign the sons of Ethelfrid, his predecessor, together with many young nobles lived in exile amoung the Irish of Picts and were there instructed in the teachings of the Irish Church and received the grace of Baptism. But on the death of their enemy, Edwin, they received permission to return to their own land, and Eanfrid, as eldest son, inherited the crown of Bernicia. As soon as they had obtained control of their earthly kingdoms, however, both of these kings apostatized from the faith of the kingdom of heaven which they had accepted {This might be absolute truth. What the Hell happens when Christ or God in Christ is put into the hands of men with heathen tendencies. What is less heathen about Christianity or for that matter Christ? Is the incorporeal God/god a heathen, a Christian, a man, a woman propagandizer, or all of the above???}, and reverted to the corruption and damnation of their former idolatry."

"Not long afterwards they were justly punished by meeting their death at the hands of the godless {I thought he was a professed Christian?? Are these Northumbrian Christian Saracens and writers Christian? What happened to the golden rule?}Cadwalla{Or was he defending himself and Christians against idol worship??}, king of the Britons. First Osric next summer was rashly besieging {Attacking King Arthur??!} him in a strong city when Cadwalla, making a sudden sally with his entire force, caught him off guard and destroyed him with his whole army. After this, for a full year, Cadwalla ruled the Northumbrian provinces, not as a victorious king but as a savage tyrant {Is this true for King Arthur??? Doubtful. One whole year, huh? How’d they get rid of him this time?? Weird.}, ravaging them with ghastly slaughter until at length he also destroyed Eanfrid {The idol worshipper? Are you really a monk, Bede??}, who had unwisely visited him to negotiate peace {Do we trust any of these heathens, including the one who supports them, the monk, Bede?? How diabolical!#*&#!!?} accompanied only by twelve picked soldiers. This year remains accursed and hateful to all good men {Idol worshippers, Bede??}, not only on account of the apostasy of the English kings, by which they divested themselves of the sacraments of the Faith, but also because of the savage tyranny of the British king {Arthur probably had had just about enough out of these Christian, attacking, idol worshippers. How do you give a fine for disturbing the peace of the Welsh?}. Hence all those calculating {Bede's the only one calculating or writing.} the reigns of kings have agreed to expunge the memory of these apostate kings {The defender of Welsh Christianity, too, Bede?? We are reading an admitted Christian ax-murderer with a pen.} and to assign this year to the reign of their successor King Oswald, a man beloved of God. This king, after the death of his brother Eanfrid {The idol worshipper? Brothers?}, mustered an army small in numbers but strong in the faith {Or are they strong in vengeance?} of Christ {How’d he end up there on the throne? Cadwalla?}; and despite Cadwalla’s vast forces, which he boasted of as irresistible {You mean Cadwalla was saying that a Northumbrian attack on his defensive Welsh forces was irresistible to the Northumbrians? Maybe he's just saying you guys are a bunch of Christian schmucks! Meaning what, Bede? Defensive forces so gallant that no enemy of the people could resist attacking and molesting their and his peace??!#*??!}, the infamous {According to you, racist Bede?} British leader was killed {Was he?} at a place known by the English as Deniseburn, that is, the Brook of Denis."

Chapter 2, Book III.: Before engaging {Attacking again? These Christians and/or heathens have a long record of attacking and harassing Cadwalla and the Welsh people. Is this Christian genocide again? Couldn't Christ have been the devil incarnate? Weeping and gnashing of teeth? The Welsh people.} the heathen {remember Cadwalla and/or Arthur was a Christian as were his people.} in battle, King Oswald sets up a wooden cross: a young man is later healed by a portion of it {?}, and innumerable other miracles take place [A.D. 634] {I ask you. What do you do with these guys?? They have liars like Gildas for historians, they are always attacking you as a heathen when you are a professed Christian, your homeland is called in Welsh Gwynedd meaning Holy-White-Plurality, you are married to Guinevere or by now have divorced her fairly as Moses said and have taken a new wife, you're about to have a family, and these guys in their various Christian/heathen disguises keep attacking you, and they just can't win and/or kill you. What the Hell do you do?? Now they’re gonna’ write you out of existence. How now brown cow??}.

Here King Oswald set up a wooden cross, perhaps to summon the spirits of war like his idol-worshipping brother did to gain favor with God to kill Cadwalla or King Arthur. Well Bede says he did at Hexham in Northumbria. Bede immediately goes into a long overblown diatribe about the healing powers of the wood in the cross Oswald set up quickly and how Holy men were healed by the old moss from the cross. Well, whether or not the Christian Cadwalla or Arthur was killed or whether he just decided that these guys were too crazy to do anything but play dead with, there you have it [A.D.634].

But also earlier Ch. 20, Book II., Bede states after: "The glorious reign of Edwin over England and Britons alike lasted seventeen years {Remember the glorious Edwin was trying to slaughter us poor upstanding Christians in Wales.}, during the last six of which, as I have just said, he laboured for the kingdom of Christ. Then the British King Cadwalla rebelled against him {They've been attacking us for years. First as heathens; then as Christians.}, supported by {his Mercian King son} Penda, a warrior of the Marcian royal house, who from then onwards ruled that nation with varying success for twenty-two years. In fierce battle {Started by whom??} on the field called Haethfelth on the twelfth of October 633, when he was 48 years old, Edwin was killed, and his entire army was destroyed or scattered. In the same battle, Osfrid, a gallant young warrior, one of Edwin’s sons, was killed before his father. Another son, Eadfrid, was compelled to submit to Penda, who subsequently in breach of a solemn promise {?What were they worried about Edwin’s progeny for??} put him to death during the reign of Oswald {I ask you again, how could this have happened during the reign of Oswald after Oswald killed Cadwalla?}.

For Penda and all his Mercians were idol worshippers ignorant of the name of Christ {Was Merlin? Were we? How is Bede sure of this after 100 years have elapsed with these unstable Christians?}; but Cadwalla, although he professed to call himself a Christian, was utterly barbarous in temperament and behavior. He was set upon exterminating the entire English race in Britain, and spared neither women nor innocent children, putting them all to horrible deaths with ruthless savagery, and continuously ravaging their whole country {I thought he got out in a year? I thought Edwin was waging war on them? More propaganda, Bede? Historian? Arthur/Cadwallon was a married, Christian man. And Your poison pen. Why do we even teach this as history in a modern Christian society??}. He had no respect for the newly established religion of Christ {But he was probably a civilizing influence with the admitted idol worshippers in your own kingdom, Bede, 100 years ago.}. Indeed even in our own days the Britons pay no respect to the faith and religion of the English {Would you??} and have no more dealings with them than with the heathen {Maybe we see no difference between the behaviors of Northumbrian Christians and the behaviors of heathens.}

Oswald died and was replaced by his brother Oswin, who was treacherously murdered by Oswy [A.D. 642-51] {Murder, Huh?}.

Now, with the already disreputable Bede, it is two years later [A.D. 653]: "About this time the Middle Angles, ruled by their king Peada, son of {idol worshipper?} Penda, accepted the true Faith and its sacraments.

In Book III., Chapter 24, a conflict is mentioned rather abstractly. Penda was attacking savagely says Bede {For what reasons??}. Penda was King of Mercia. Oswy's son, Egfrid, was at the time held hostage at the court of Queen Cynwise in the province of the Mercians. The former King of Northumberland, Oswald's son, Ethelwald, who should have helped Oswy battle Penda, had gone over to the enemy {enemy Bede??} and had acted as guide to Penda's army against his own kin and country, although during the actual battle he withdrew and awaited the outcome in a place of safety {Is this true Northumbrian Bede???}.

Was Cynwise Penda's wife??

I think not. {Cynwise {Seenweese} was the Queen of Mercia, Arthur's final wife, and Peada's Grandmother through her son, Penda, King of the Mercians, by Arthur. In reality, she was the first Queen of Great Britain. The Welsh were "good" Christians, the Northumbrians were "bad" Christians. There is a difference. Good Christians win over the enemy. Bad Christians war with the enemy. I believe that even many years after, when Bede was writing, Bede was made uncomfortable with a Queen. Even as late as Queen Elizabeth I. of Great Britain, there were many detractors.

I am quoting from Time-Life Books The Enchanted World Series: "The grave had been covered with a stone slab, a lead cross fixed to its underside. "I have seen this cross myself," wrote Gerald, "and I have tracted the lettering, which was cut into it on the side turned toward the ground, instead of being on the outer side and immediately visible. The inscription reads as follows: 'Here in the Isle of Avalon lies buried the renowned King Arthur and Guinevere, his second wife.'" I have news. These are the bones of his second wife, Cynwise, and a lock of his first wife, Guinevere's golden hair. That is why the cross was turned toward the ground. The inscription is a half-truth and a total truth. Dan Fogelberg, the Arthurian rock star, is Lancelot. Lauren Bacall, the movie star, is Guinevere or Gwainelod. Marilyn Manson is Gweir the Tall. Humphrey Bogart is Saxo's son Hamlet. Agnes Morehead is either Ophelia, Saxo's daughter or Gertrude, Saxo's wife and Hamlet's mother. Arthur was killed by Gweir the Tall. Arthur left a corpse, but didn't die. When he faced Gweir the Tall again, he married him to Alanis Morissette, Arthur's daughter. The Millennium incarnation of Gweir the Tall is Marilyn Manson, the rock star who is being outlawed in some communities. They have children. Two of the were in my speech class, here on the 90th degree of longitude west. Alanis' and Marilyn's former daughter is named Tikfah and their former son is named Jeff. Back in Arthur's time Tikfah and Jeff were married. Karmically, they were drawn together in my class. The Dark Ages began with Arthur's putting out the sun after his killing. He paraded the corpse throughout Europe and into Rome. He was depicted by the primitive church as Cadwallon. Now I'll go on with Bede. These things are coming to me. See the Web Page button: Knowledge of the Masters of the Ages. The Barâ-t: Appendix. And the end of this ultimate King Arthur paper for more information. It is logical. God's Universal Mind's Powers are immense. The sun itself is a pinpoint!}.

Peada, who was a noble young man, well deserving to the kingship of this people, went to Oswy King of the Northumbrians and requested the hand of his daughter Alchfled in marriage {Did the withdrawn Cadwallon and his son Penda put his grandson up to this feat of marrying the feuding Northumbrians?}. Oswy, however, would not agree to this unless the king and his people accepted the Christian Faith and were baptized. So when Peada had received instruction in the true Faith, and had learned of the promises of the kingdom of heaven and of man's hope of resurrection and eternal life to come, he said he would gladly become a Christian, even if he were refused the princess. He was chiefly influenced to accept the Faith by King Oswy's son Alchfrid, who was his kinsman and friend, and had married his sister Cyniburg, daughter of King Penda {I'll bet you the Universe we slumbering Welsh leaders set this whole thing up!! Arthur would have proudly said, "All my grandchildren!!!" There are happy endings sometimes within the defensive efforts of a hard-working, struggling grandfather.}. King Penda: AT THE RESURRECTION: IS The Grail Maiden: Jeanine: AND MY OR Gwydion's FORMER Welsh BROTHER: THE National Football League SUPERBOWL-WINNING QUARTERBACK: Brett Favre!!!!!!: WITH MY WISCONSIN HOME-TEAM."

"TWO-IN-A-ROW: Bretwalda Favre!!!!"

Finally, for the 'venerable' Bede, and finally for Cadwalla or Arthur or whatever you want to call him, in Chapter 7 of Book V.: "Cadwalla, King of the West Saxons {The genetic wellspring of the future Kings of Britain like Alfred.}, goes to Rome for Baptism {They probably thought he might be or was the Devil or Satan incarnate for their own skewed and superstitious way of looking at life and religion...}: his successor Ini also made a pilgrimage of devotion to the shrine of the Apostles [A.D. 688] {And this Cadwalla remains existent in Bede's own time!!} In the third year of King Alfrid’s reign, Cadwalla, King of the West Saxons, who had governed his people most ably for two years {During which he killed the King of Kent! Why did he only rule for two years.? Did he willingly go to Rome or was he taken hostage?? These are questions.}, abdicated {Or was he brutally taken hostage??} from his throne for the sake of our Lord and his eternal kingdom and travelled to Rome. For, having learned that the road to heaven lies open to mankind only through baptism, he wished to obtain the particular privilege of receiving the cleansing of baptism at the shrine of the blessed Apostles {Or did the church officials not know what the Hell to do with a man they had waged a personal war on for over 286 years?}. At the same time, he hoped to die shortly after {Doubtful.} his baptism, and pass from this world to everlasting happiness. By God's grace, both of these hopes were realized {Is this truth or speculation? Where did he get his information? Rome?} Arriving in Rome during the pontificate of Sergius, he was baptized on Holy Saturday before Easter in the year of our Lord 689 {They made sure to make it as Holy as possible for the possible Satan. Remember Galileo and his imprisonment for using a telescope?? Superstitious Christians doing it for their Lord...}, and he fell ill {Is this what they told Bede? Liars. In his 30's?} and while still wearing his white robes departed this life on the twentieth of April and joined the company of the blessed in heaven. At the time of his baptism, the aforesaid Pope had given him the name of Peter {Whom Roman shackles couldn't hold.}, in order that he might be linked by name to the most blessed Prince of the Apostles, to whose most sacred body the mind's devotion had brought him from the ends of the earth. He was buried in the Apostle's church, and the Pope directed that an epitaph be inscribed on his tomb to preserve the memory of his devotion for ever and inspire all who read or heard of it to religious fervour {Still trying to capitalize on others, huh, Pope?}. This inscription was as follows:

Eager to win the prize of life renewed,

Cadwalla, also known as Peter, King of the Saxons, was buried here on the twelfth day before the Kalends of May, the second indiction. He lived about thirty years {Oh, really, Bede. Is this the way you expunge King Arthur's memory? What a denigrating individual you are, Bede.}, during the reign of the most pious Emperor Justinian Augustus, in the fourth year of his Consulship, and in the second year of the pontificate of our apostolic lord Pope Sergius.

On Cadwalla's departure for Rome, he was succeeded as king by Ine, who was of the blood royal. Having ruled the nation for thirty-seven years, Ine also abdicated and handed over the government to younger men. He then set out to visit the shrines of the blessed Apostles during the pontificate of Gregory [II], wishing to spend some of the time of his earthly pilgrimage in the vicinity of the holy places, hoping thereby to merit a warmer welcome from the saints in heaven. At this period, many English people vied with one another in following this custom, both noble and simple, layfolk and clergy, men and women alike.

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