Oscytel

Oscytel (or Oskytel or Oscetel; died 971) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester and Archbishop of York.

[2][3] He was related to Oswald, Bishop of Worcester and later Archbishop of York, and Thurcytel, who was abbot of Bedford Abbey.

[4] A legend stated that his father was a Dane who arrived in England as part of a pagan war band.

[5] Oscytel was selected to the see of Dorchester sometime between 934 and 951,[6] probably close to 951 for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says that he had been a bishop for twenty-two years when he died.

Oskytel only starts showing up consistently after the death of King Eadred of England, who left the bishop some bequests in his will.