Reign
Ecgfrith was made king of the Northumbrian sub-kingdom of Deira in 664 and he became king of Northumbria itself following his father's death on 15 February 670.
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“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature’s monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.”
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