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<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>BEOWULF</i></p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 4 - INVADING ANGLO-SAXONS</font></b></p> <p align="center"><OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" WIDTH=210 HEIGHT=30> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/stories/beowulf_grendel/audio/ch4.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/stories/beowulf_grendel/audio/ch4.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH=210 HEIGHT=30 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED> </OBJECT></p> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">According to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bedesworld.co.uk/academic-bede.php"><b>Venerable Bede</b></a>,  the Angles came <a target="_blank" href="images/from_map_depicting.migrations_including_Jutes.Angles.Saxons.jpg"><b>from</b></a> "Angulus," near today’s Danish-German border. In fact, <a target="_blank" href="http://encarta.msn.com/map_701516395/Schleswig-Holstein.html"><b>Schleswig-Holstein</b></a> (the northern area of modern Germany), still has a district called <a target="_blank" href="images/angeln_location.of.Angeln_modern.Germany.jpg"><b>Angeln</b></a>. </p> <p>The Saxons came from the coast <a target="_blank" href="images/between_general.location_Saxons.jpg"><b>between</b></a> the <a target="_blank" href="images/elbe_Elbe.River_area_Germany.jpg"><b>Elbe</b></a> and <a target="_blank" href="images/weser_location_Elbe.Weser.valley.gif"><b>Weser</b></a> River valleys. A <a target="_blank" href="images/third_group_migration_jutes.saxons.angles.jpg"><b>third group</b></a> of foreigners who would soon populate Rome’s former province - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nvcc.edu/home/nvbrunr/images/anglessaxonsjutes.jpg"><b>the Jutes</b></a> -  resided <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/world/400.shtml"><b>north</b></a> of the Angles in Jutland (<a target="_blank" href="images/modern_map_Jutland.Denmark.jpg"><b>modern</b></a> Denmark).</p> <p>At first, the Britons were able to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/immig_emig/england/kent/index.shtml"><b>pay</b></a> their foreign defenders. But as more and more Anglo-Saxons descended on Britain, compensating them became increasingly difficult. Soon the immigrants “took” what was not theirs. </p> <p>As word about good-land-for-the-taking reached tribesmen still living in their own lands, hoards of uninvited “barbarians” reached Britain’s shores. <a target="_blank" href="images/their_intent_story_anglo.saxons.jpg"><b>Their intent</b></a> was not to help the Britons resist the Picts and Scots. Their intent was to settle the land themselves. Some of their early <a target="_blank" href="images/settlements_settlements_from_Assessing.Anglo.Saxon.Invasions_Wm.Bakken_1994.gif"><b>settlements</b></a>, based on archeological evidence, incorporate towns which are still important today.</p> <p>Largely undefended, remaining Romans and native Britons fled to modern <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/18/welsh.referendum/wales.cardiff.lg.jpg"><b>Wales</b></a> and <a target="_blank" href="images/cornwall_location_Cornwall.png"><b>Cornwall</b></a>.  It wasn’t the first time Saxons had invaded their land. That had happened as early as 409 A.D. But this time, with no legions to protect them, resistance proved extremely difficult.</p> <p>Saxons attacked the southern part of Britannia from northern Germany, as did Angles and Jutes. When so much of the south was occupied by Angles, the area was called <a target="_blank" href="http://www.northeastengland.talktalk.net/GeordieOrigins.htm"><b>Angle-land</b></a> (scroll down 20%) from which the country - England - later took its name.</p> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/gaelic/celts.html"><b>Celtic tribes</b></a>, who had caused Britons to seek help in the first place, continued to inhabit the <a target="_blank" href="images/northern_part_location_picts_scotland.jpg"><b>northern part</b></a> of the territory. Fierce as they were, they remained independent during this time frame. The Picts (Rome’s old nemesis) and the Scots (originally from Ireland) were the two main <a target="_blank" href="http://www.euratlas.com/big/big0800.htm"><b>northern tribes</b></a>.  They ultimately <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/sysm/scots/teachers/"><b>united</b></a> under one king (Kenneth MacAlpin) to <a target="_blank" href="http://netmedia.co.uk/history/week-9/"><b>form</b></a> Scotland (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.euratlas.com/time/nw0900.htm"><b>Kingdom of Alba</b></a>)  in 843, although the islands and highlands were not part of that early country. (William Shakespeare, parenthetically, later wrote about a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/macbeth.shtml"><b>real king of Scotland</b></a> at the end of those Dark Ages. He called him Macbeth.)</p> <p>Invited <a target="_blank" href="http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/arthist/vortigernquotesasc.htm"><b>“Anglo-Saxon” defenders</b></a> had become unwelcome invaders who were in the country to stay. As Britons resisted, the land descended into chaos. </p> </div> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch3.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="beowulf_grendel_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="beowulf_grendel_ch5.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p> <blockquote><br>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td>  <td align="center" valign="top"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.awesomestories.com/includes/ad_format.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td>  </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>