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The history of the Germanic kingdoms of England, from the Saxon Advent to the Norman Conquest. |
Anglo-Saxon History
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 The Saxon Advent
Historical Thread
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The Adventus Saxonum
Circa AD 449: the "groans of the Britons", the trickle that had, for two centuries, brought Saxon pirates (and later settlers) to Britain became a flood. Within a century and more, the Romano-Celtic island of Britannia would be, along its eastern edge, the land of a Germanic non-Christian people whose drove out with violence the former citizens of the Roman Empire. Although later a civilization would flourish, the Saxon Advent (which led to the myths about King Arthur) was a time of brutality and fear.
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