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Oscytel (or Oskytel; died 971) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester and Archbishop of York.Oscytel was probably of Danish ancestry. He was related to Oswald Bishop of Worcester and later Archbishop of York and Thurcytel who was abbot of Bedford Abbey. All three men were landowners in the eastern midlands with Oskytel owning lands at Beeby in Leicestershire. No other information about Oskytel’s birth and upbringing is known.