The activities of Mellitus, Paulinus, and Aidan are described in this work that uses Edwin as an example of a good king, or bretwalda, of an island that its author claims is inhabited by those of five languages and four nations, including the Picts, the Irish, and the British.
At one point in this work, a man was burned on his shoulder and jaw when he saw a vision of the fourfold fires of Falsehood, Covetousness, Discord, and Cruelty. That man, Fursey, was the follower of a king who was dragged out of a monastery by his own subjects and forced to go into battle against King Penda armed only with a stick. In one episode from this work, a priest called Coifi uses a spear and stallion to deface a pagan temple after a royal councillor compares the life of man to the flight of a sparrow through a banqueting-hall during a winter storm. The activities of Mellitus, Paulinus, and Aidan are described in this work that uses Edwin as an example of a good king, or bretwalda, of an island that its author claims is inhabited by those of five languages and four nations, including the Picts, the Irish, and the British. For 10 points, the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England is the subject matter of what best-known work by the Venerable Bede?
At one point in this work, a man was burned on his shoulder and jaw when he saw a vision of the fourfold fires of Falsehood, Covetousness, Discord, and Cruelty.
{Ecclesiastical History} of the {English People} (or {History} of the {English Church} and {People} or {Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum})