...success of the Saxons, and adds, " It is not wonderful, therefore, if the Saxons triumphed. But... the desperate courage with which the Britons bore...Brittany by the Saxons, has absolutely no foundation in history."1 He admits also that the names of some of the Saxon princes imply intermarriage with the...

...themselves had no chance against men whose very existence depended on union. The permanent quarrel between civilized men and barbarians, between the Romanized...tribe under Vortigern, with the occupation of the 1 Herbert, Britannia in the time of the Romans. 100 EMIGRATION OF THE NATIVES. island.1 The mistake...

...race. They obtained their reward in the liberal terms which were granted them by the conqueror. _^ For the common belief, that the Keltic population...tribe under Vortigern, with the occupation of the island.1 The mistake is as if we should suppose that the Silures, under Caractacus, were the whole...

...cannot construct a true history of the times, but we can prove this hypothesis to be Elsewhere : — ' The common belief that the Keltic population of Britain...the Saxons, has absolutely no foundation in history. . . . We hear of great slaughters by the Saxons on their bloody battlefields, but no massacres after...

...construct a true history of the times, but we can prove this hypothesis to be false.'* Elsewhere : — ' The common belief that the Keltic population of Britain...the Saxons, has absolutely no foundation in history. . . . We hear of great slaughters by the Saxons on their bloody battlefields, but no massacres after...

...construct a true history of the times, but we can prove this hypothesis to be false.' 2 Elsewhere:— ' The common belief that the Keltic population of Britain...the Saxons, has absolutely no foundation in history. . . . We hear of great slaughters by the Saxons on their bloody battlefields, but no massacres after...

...facts the survival of the great mass of the British population. " The common belief that the Celtic population of Britain was exterminated or driven into...Wales and Brittany by the Saxons has absolutely no 1 Epping and Hainault forests are its relics now. Of. Airy, Hist, of Km. i. , p. 9. a So Stubbs, I....

...Middle Ages appeared, at once taking rank as a work of solid and permanent value. Pearson held that " the common belief, that the Keltic population of Britain...the Saxons has absolutely no foundation in history." He said: " The object of the races who broke up the Roman empire was not to settle in a desert, but...