Editing Rheged (section)

==End of Rheged==
After Bernicia united with [[Deira (kingdom)|Deira]] to become the kingdom of [[Northumbria]], Rheged was annexed by Northumbria, some time before AD 730. There was a royal marriage between Prince (later King) [[Oswiu of Northumbria]] and the Rhegedian princess [[Rhiainfellt|Rieinmelth]], granddaughter of Rum (Rhun), probably in 638, so it is possible that it was a peaceful takeover, both kingdoms being inherited by the same man.<ref>Jackson, K.H. (1955) ''The Britons in Southern Scotland'', Antiquity, xxix, pp. 77–88</ref><ref>Lewis, Helen (1989) ''Whose Cultural Heritage? Etifeddiaeth Ddiwylliannol i Bwy?'', English in Education, Taylor & Francis</ref>

After Rheged was incorporated into [[Northumbria]], the old [[Cumbric language]] was gradually replaced by [[Old English]], Cumbric surviving only in remote upland communities. Around the year 900, after the power of Northumbria was destroyed by Viking incursions and settlement, large areas west of the [[Pennines]] fell without apparent warfare under the control of the Brittonic [[Kingdom of Strathclyde]], with [[Leeds]] recorded as being on the border between the Britons and the Norse Kingdom of [[York]]. This may have represented the political assertion of lingering Brittonic culture in the region.{{sfn|Kapelle|1979|p=34}} The area of [[Cumbria]] remained under the control of Strathclyde until the early 11th century when Strathclyde itself was absorbed into the Scottish kingdom. The name of the people, whose modern Welsh form is {{lang|cy|[[Welsh people|Cymry]]}} has, however, survived in the name of [[Cumberland]] and now [[Cumbria]]; it probably derives from an old Celtic word *''Kombroges'' meaning "fellow countrymen".