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Early Britain
Grant Allen
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It seems improbable, however, that the north-eastern coast of Britain, naturally exposed above every other part to the ravages of northern pirates, and in later days the head-quarters of the Danish intruders in our island, should so long have remained free from English incursions. If the Teutonic settlers really first established themselves here a century later than their conquest of Kent, we can only account for it by the supposition that York and the Brigantes, the old metropolis of the provinces, held out far more stubbornly and successfully than Rochester and Anderida, with their very servile Romanised population. But even the words of t. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
This is a fairly easy read, though it does wrap up drily and slowly as the history stops and the language description begins.
I am confident that there are later books on this subject that are better. It was OK and I thought the author did a good job of telling a story, but the end of the book going through all the roots and derivations of English words from their origin was tough to get through.
On the dry side, but that is to be expected for the time period it was written in. Overall though it was not much more than Name, place and date. In the later chapters it went into several more interesting aspects of the topic. Not my cup of tea for a history book, but glad I stuck with it and read
This short book gave a good introduction of the history and linguistic and literary influences of Anglo-Saxon England (c460-1066). This book, however, is quite dated with some old-fashioned terminology. Overall, an interesting read.
Easy to read overview of the period focusing on the social aspects of the time and demonstrating the mix of peoples we now call the English and the British. Again, as in Green's England During the Dark Ages, it is a product of the thinking of the time, and discoveries and new research have made some