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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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must have been going on at this timein the chalk uplands which rose to the north ofthem across the Stour. It is in this district thatwe first meet with a third race of conquerors,whose work was to be of even greater moment inour history than that of Saxon or Jute. The menwho were to spread along the Yare and the Orwell,and to march in triumph through the massive gatewhich recalls the strength of Eoman Lincoln, whosework it was to colonize Mid-Britain and the lineof the Trent, as well as to win for their own thevast regions between the Firth of Forth and theHumber, were drawn from a tribe whose namewas destined to absorb that of Saxon and Jute,and to stamp itself on the people which sprangfrom the union of the conquerors of Britain, as onthe land which they won. These were the Engle 1 Guest Four Roman V^ays, Origines Celtiae, ii. 218. Bseda, H. E. i. 15. EAST BRITAIN. Scale of Mileso ^ I 20 30 40 50 British Names Iceni Roman Names lindum English Names Bedicanford Modern Names _ Lincoln
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Il \ilkcy & Uoulallsc. Shore.449-c. 500. Ensle. 56 THE MAKING OF ENGLAND Chap. I. or Englishmen. The bulk of the tribes who thenTh^ bore this name, if in the darkness of their early?ii?sIlo2^ history they have been rightly traced by modernresearch, lay probably along the middle Elbe inthe country about Magdeburg; while fragmentsof the same race were found on the Weser, inwhat is now known as Lower Hanover and Olden-burg, and in the peninsula which juts from theshores of North Germany to part the Baltic andthe Northern Seas.^ The East It is in the heart of this peninsula that we stillfind the district which preserves their name ofAngeln or the Engleland; and from the desertstate of this district as men saw it hundreds ofyears afterwards,^ it would seem that, unlike theirSaxon neighbours, the bulk of whom remained intheir own homesteads, the whole Engle peopleforsook their earlier seats for the soil of Britain.Such a transfer would account for the wide areaof their conquests. Of the

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