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BERNICIA , the See also:

northern of the two See also:English kingdoms which were eventually See also:united in the See also:kingdom of See also:Northumbria. Its territory is said to have stretched from the See also:Tyne northwards, ultimately reaching the Forth, while its western frontier was gradually extended at the expense of the Welsh. The See also:chief royal See also:residence was See also:Bamburgh, and near it was the See also:island of Lindisfarne, afterwards the see of a See also:bishop. The first See also:king of whom we have any See also:record is See also:Ida, who is said to have obtained the See also:throne about 547. See also:IEthelfrith, king of Bernicia, united See also:Deira to his own kingdom, probably about 6o5, and the See also:union continued under his successor See also:Edwin, son of See also:Ella or IElle, king of Deira. Bernicia was again See also:separate from Deira under Eanfrith, son of lEthelfrith (633–634), after which date the See also:kings of Bernicia were supreme in Northumbria, though for a See also:short See also:time under See also:Oswio Deira had a king of its own. See See also:Bede, Hist. See also:Eccles. ii. 14, iii. 1, 14; See also:Nennius, § 63; See also:Simeon of See also:Durham, i. 339. (F.

G. M. B.) BERNICIAN See also:

SERIES, in See also:geology, a See also:term proposed by S. P. See also:Woodward in 1856 (See also:Manual of See also:Mollusca, p. 409) for the See also:lower portion of the Carboniferous See also:System,below the Millstone Grit. The name was suggested by that of the See also:ancient See also:province of Bernicia on the Anglo-Scottish borderland. It is practically See also:equivalent to the " Dinantien " of A. de See also:Lapparent and Munier-Chalmas (1893). In 1875 G. See also:Tate's " Calcareous and Carbonaceous " See also:groups of the Carboniferous See also:Limestone series of See also:Northumberland were united by See also:Professor Lebour into a single series, to which he applied the name " Bernician "; but later he speaks of the whole of the Carboniferous rocks of Northumberland and its See also:borders as of the" Bernician type," which is the most satisfactory way in which the term may now be used (See also:Report of the Brit. Sub-See also:committee on See also:Classification and Nomenclature, 2nd ed., See also:Cambridge, 1888). " Demetian " was the corresponding designation proposed by Woodward for the Upper Carboniferous rocks.

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