Editing Bernicia (section)

=== Rump of Northumbria ===
[[File:England 878.svg|thumb|150px|England in 878. The independent rump of the former Kingdom of Northumbria (yellow) was to the north of the [[Norsemen|Norse]] Danelaw and [[Scandinavian York|Kingdom of Jórvík]]]]
After the decisive defeat of Northumbrian forces by the Viking [[Great Heathen Army]], at the Battle of [[Battle of York (867)|York in 867]], the united Kingdom of Northumbria disintegrated. The lands north of the Tyne remained a [[de facto]] independent kingdom called [[Bamburgh]] after the stronghold of its high-reeves. The lands between Tyne and Tees were granted to the Community of St. Cuthbert, forming an ecclesiastical buffer zone between Jórvík and Bamburgh.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adams |first1=Max |title=Ælfred's Britain: war and peace in the Viking age |date=2017 |publisher=Head of Zeus |location=London |isbn=978-1784080297 }}</ref> In 927 [[Ealdred I of Bamburgh|Ealdred]] accepted West Saxon overlordship; however, the lands north of the Tees remained outside of the West Saxon administrative system of shires and hundreds until after the [[Norman Invasion of England|Norman invasion]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Darby |first1=Henry Clifford |title=Domesday England |date=7 August 1986 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521310260 |page=11 }}</ref><ref name = "Molyneaux">{{cite book |last1=Molyneaux |first1=George |title=The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century |date=2017 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=9780192542939 |page=10 }}</ref> 

In 973, Scots sovereignty over northern Bernicia, now known as [[Lothian]], was acknowledged by [[Edgar the Peaceful|Edgar of England]].
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