And for some crazy reason they called the rest of the North Mercia instead of Nussex. No wonder they lost to the Normans,
I think Wrexham Glyndŵr University has the strangest name I've heard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrexham_Glyndŵr_University No one in US will name a university like this.
Not that strange. Welsh actually. Glyndwr used to be spelled Glendower by us hopeless English. Owain Glyndwr was a great man in Welsh history.