Talk:Battle of the Winwaed

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[edit] Which river

• "this river has never been identified"
• "There is good reason to believe it may have been the river now known as Cock Beck"
• "the River Winwaed, which may be identified with the Went"

Which is it? :) What is the "good reason"? Where's the Went? That's a disambiguation page. Haukur 10:17, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Head cut off

"Bede mentions that Penda's head was cut off"... after reading Bede's account it seems to me he was talking figuratively; ie. the "head" of the heathen nation of Mercia was "cut off" with the defeat of Penda. Unless someone can provide a definitive reference to Penda's actual decapitation I'm gonna remove the statement (I mean, it's not that relevant anyways.) --Jquarry 02:12, 15 November 2006 (UTC)