Bedford Abbey. All three men were landowners in the eastern midlands, with Oscytel owning lands at Beeby, in Leicestershire. No other information about Oscytel's birth and upbringing is known. A legend stated that his father was a Dane who arrived in England as part of a pagan war band.

Bishop

Oscytel was selected to the see of Dorchester sometime between 934 and 951, probably close to 951 for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

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