The words ‘English’ and ‘England’ originated from the Anglo-Saxon peoples. The Anglo-Saxons were not a single individuals, and also may not have been even an official confederation originally. largely made up of Jutes from Jutland where they are still called Jutes in that area, the Engle or Angles from Angeln in Denmark, additionally called the…
Read MoreWho was Alfred? History to a fantastic man He was a fugitive in the copse of the marshes of Somerset to whom came a vision of England past the creative imagination and grasp of her war-weary people. Alfred dreamed of an England where peace, order, and nonpartisanship prevailed, where learn-ing thrived as well as letters…
Read MoreIgnoring the background of the Englisc people raiding his own coastline, he chose to send out ambassadors to the hall of Hengist a Jutish War Lord. He quickly saw off the Picts that had actually most likely never run into anything like an Englisc war-band prior to. This was the stimulant that ultimately led to…
Read MoreTHE 7 KINGDOMS OF THE ENGLISC 600– 800 AD A red sunset; as well as a long night; a pale, misty dawn! But as the light expands it emerges to remote posterity that every little thing has actually altered. Evening had actually landeded on Britannia. Yet dawn had actually climbed on a New England, simple,…
Read More871 AD to 899 AD as well as to Althelfleda and also Edward the Senior to 924 AD. ” He was King over all England …”. It was to Alfred– Soldier, Scholar, Conscientious as well as committed Ruler– to which, all the English People would search for advice and delivery. Who was Alfred? Background to…
Read MoreAfter 400 years in Britain the Romans leave 410 :- Honorius, the Roman Emperor in Britain states he has to go back to Rome to protect his residence land from assaults by Germanic tribes and the British need to take over the obligation of protecting themselves from Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Picts and Scots. The English…
Read MoreThe Age of the Vikings As we have discovered in the first part of this History of the English, our very early forefathers came to this Island, initially as raiders and some as hirelings, invited by a Romanic British Warlord (Vortigern,) to eliminate the Picts of the North but who later switched on their Romanic-British…
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