Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

Oswald's Well

commemorates the death of Oswald, Christian king of Northumbria, who fell in battle before Penda, pagan king of Mercia, in 642.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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