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Title: The making of England
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Green, John Richard, 1837-1883
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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eir king ^lla, the Engle ofDeira are said not only to have made themselvesmasters of the country from the Humber to theWear, but to have taken advantage of the discordin Bernicia to assert a supremacy over their fellowEngle to the north.^ If this were so, we find theorigin of a struggle between the two peoples inEllas old age which filled the foreign slavemarkets with English slaves.^ Nothing marksmore strongly the chasm of thought and feelingthat, in spite of oneness in tongue, blood, and 1 Skene, Celtic Scotland, i. 155-6. The date of Gregorys meeting with tlie English slaves atRome is fixed between 585 and 588 by the fact that after hislong stay at Constantinople he returned to Rome in 585 or 586(Pelagius wrote to him at Constantinople in October 584, wlnlea letter of Pelagius to Elias in 586 is said to have Ijcen composedby Gregory at Rome). On the other hand, ^Ua, whom theslaves owned as their king, died in 588. BRITAIN IN 593. Eng-lish Miles 20 40 60 80—I—i—j—I—■ I t
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lialkci^ i-r Houtallsc, 244 THE MAKING OF ENGLAND Chap. V. religion, still parted the English tribes from oneThe strife another than the cruel usages of their warfare. AConquerors war between two English peoples was carried on677^7. with all the ruthlessness of a war betweenstrangers. It was purely at his captors will thatransom saved the noble taken in battle from thedoom of death. Slavery alone saved from deatha captive of meaner rank. At a far later timethan this, when the influence of Christianity haddone much to soften English manners, the slayingof prisoners in cold blood or their sale in foreignslave markets remained a common matter.^ Oneof the most memorable stories in our history showsus a group of such slaves, taken in this war betweenthe Bernicians and Deirans, as they stood in themarket-place at Rome, it may be the great Forumof Trajan which still in its decay recalled theglories of the Imperial City. Their white bodies,their fair faces, their golden hair, were noted by aE

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