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The light of learning, notes Simeon Potter in Our Language , shone more brightly in Northumbria than anywhere else in Europe.
Din Eidyn fell to the Angles in 638 and became part of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria.
Northumbria was then on the periphery of the civilised world.
Later, in the seventh century, Anglian Christians moved in from the east and took over much of the land; from that point up until the tenth century the Lakelands were ruled from neighboring Northumbria.
It was dropped at the court of Gaelic kings in favour of English about 900 years ago, perhaps to please an English queen or perhaps to ensure the retention of the English-speaking half of Northumbria ceded to Scotland.