Qualla: Battle of Maserfield https://qualla.com/battle-of-maserfield en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Maserfield https://qualla.com/battle-of-maserfield Battle of Maserfield: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-maserfield/ By the time the fighting ended on 5 August 642, the King of Northumbria was dead and his body was being cut apart. His head and arms were mounted on poles. The rest of him was somewhere on the field. Penda of Mercia, the pagan king who had won the day, was now the most powerful ruler in the Anglo-Saxon midlands. Bede later wrote that Oswald of Northumbria prayed for the souls of his soldiers as he saw he was about to die. Within a generation, those soldiers' bones were being sold across Europe as relics of a saint and martyr - and the place where Oswald fell would be called, in English, Oswald's Tree. Oswestry.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/u/battle-of-maserfield-wp/gcmu-battle-of-maserfield-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Maserfield: Northumbria's Reach https://qualla.com/battle-of-maserfield/ Oswald had spent the eight years before Maserfield extending Northumbrian power across most of Britain south of the Humber. He came to the throne after killing Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd at Heavenfield in 634 - revenge for the death of his uncle Edwin at Hatfield Chase the ye...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/u/battle-of-maserfield-wp/gcmu-battle-of-maserfield-northumbrias-reach.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Maserfield: Where Was Maserfield? https://qualla.com/battle-of-maserfield/ Tradition places the battle at Oswestry in Shropshire. The town's English name - first attested in 1191 as Oswaldestroe - means 'Oswald's Tree.' The traditional Welsh name, Croesoswallt, means 'Oswald's Cross.' Both names suggest a memory of a slain Christian king, but the identi...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/u/battle-of-maserfield-wp/gcmu-battle-of-maserfield-where-was-maserfield.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Maserfield: Welshmen on the Field https://qualla.com/battle-of-maserfield/ The simple picture - Christian Northumbrians against pagan Mercians - leaves out the Welsh. The Canu Heledd suggests that warriors from Pengwern (the British kingdom centred near modern Shrewsbury) fought on Penda's side, probably as allies. They would have been Christians fighti...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/u/battle-of-maserfield-wp/gcmu-battle-of-maserfield-welshmen-on-the-field.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Maserfield: The Body and the Saint https://qualla.com/battle-of-maserfield/ What Penda did to Oswald's corpse was, by 7th-century standards, theological as much as military. Dismembering a king's body and mounting the head and arms on stakes was an act of public humiliation, and it was also - perhaps - a pagan offering to the war-god Woden. It backfired ...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/u/battle-of-maserfield-wp/gcmu-battle-of-maserfield-the-body-and-the-saint.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Maserfield: After https://qualla.com/battle-of-maserfield/ Maserfield broke Northumbria. The kingdom split: Deira in the south chose its own king, Oswine; Bernicia in the north went to Oswald's brother Oswiu. They quarrelled. Oswiu had Oswine murdered in 651. The fractured Northumbria did not reunite as a serious power until after the Ba...

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