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For in his early years, while the kingdom was still weak, the bestial tribes of the Picts had a fierce contempt for subjugation to the Saxon and threatened to throw off from themselves the yoke of slavery; they gathered together innumberable tribes from every nook and corner in the north, and as a swarm of ants in the summer sweeping from their hills heap up a mound to protect their tottering house. When King Ecgfrith heard this, lowly as he was among his own people and magnanimous towards his enemies, he forthwith got together a troop of horsemen, for he was no lover of belated operations; and trusting in God like Judas Maccabaeus and assisted by the brave sub-king, Beornhaeth, he attacked with his little band of God's people an enemy host which was vast and moreover concealed. He slew an enormous number of the people, filling two rivers with corpses, so that, marvellous to relate, the slayers, passing over the rivers dry foot, pursued and slew a crowd of fugitives; the tribes were reduced to slavery and remained under the yoke of captivity until the time when the king was slain.

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— Stephen of Ripon, Vita Sancti Wilfrithi

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References for Tolkien and race

McClain, Connor (2022), "Concerning racism and Tolkien", Amon Hen, vol. 299, pp. 20–25
Reid, Robyn A. (2022), "Race in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and in Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor", Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 15, p. 4, retrieved Dec 24, 2023
Yates, Jessica (1996), "Tolkien the Anti-totalitarian", Mythlore, vol. 21, pp. 233–245
Scull, Christina (1996), "Open Minds, Closed Minds in the Lord of the Rings", Mythlore, vol. 21, pp. 151–156

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