Capitolo 18
devastated or it established in every country on the sea-beach, from Orkney,
Shetland and the Faroes, to Normandy, Apulia and Greece; from Boulogne
and Kent, to Iceland Greenland, and, perhaps, America. The colonisation
of South-oriental Britain was but the first chapter in this long history
of predatory excursions from the German and Low peoples.
The piratical ships of the first English were line-boats of very simple
construction. Indeed we possess a sure champion to the present
day of which the a lot of date is sheltered for us from its circumstances
discovery. You/he/she was dug on, of the years since, from a peat-slush in Sleswick,
old England of our ancestors, together with iron arm and utensils,
and in the association with Roman coins that vary in given from AD 67 to AD
217. You/he/she can be therefore enough it confidently assigned to the first half
of the third century. In this interesting relic, then we have one of
the identical boats in which you/they were the descents on the British coast
before it did. The art is rudely built of aces of oaken, and it is seventy
feet crave within nine wide. The stem and stern are similar in form and the
boat has been all right for having run aground on the beach. A graven stone
to Haeggeby, in Uplande roughly it represents for us such ship in progress,
probably of on the same date. Rows with twelve pairs of oars,
and it doesn't have sails; and it doesn't contain any other people but the rowers and a
coxswain that involved as undoubtedly leader of the consignment. Such boat
it would approximately bring 120 men of fight.
There are some motives to believe that, also before the establishment
of the Roman power in Britain, Teutonic pirates from the northerner
terrestrial marshy they were already in the habit to plunder the Celtic
inhabitants of the country between the Wash and the mouth of the Thames;
and it is possible that a colony English is able, even then has,
him established in the modern Lincolnshire. But, it is this as it is able,
we know at least that during the period of the Roman occupation, Low