Capitolo 25
Wlencing and Cissa. These names are evidently invented to explain for
those of three important places in the south-Saxon chieftainship. The
innkeeper disembarked to the time of Kymenes, probably Keynor, in the Bill of Selsey,
then, as it cares his/her title a circle of circumference of island separated by the of the tide,
sea: their capital and, in days after the Norman conquest, them
cathedral was to Cissan-ceaster, the Roman Regnum, now Chichester: while
the third name survives in the modern village to Cast, next to Shoreham.
The Saxons immediately fought against the natives "and offslew the very Welsh one and flock
some in flight in the wood that has called Andredes-leag", now the Weald
of Kent and Sussex. A small colony occupied so the western half of
the modern county: but still the oriental portion remained in the hands
of the Welsh. For a few the great Roman fortitude of Anderida (now
Pevensey) it held out against the invaders; up to that in 491 "AElle and Cissa
attacks Anderida and offslew everybody that was therein; neither it was there later
a British went away also I live." Every Sussex became a solo Saxon kingdom,
round ringed from the great forest of the Weald. Here again him evidently
character of unhistorical of the principal facts throws the maximum doubt on
the nature of the details. Anchor, in this case also, the central idea
it is probably enough,--that the Saxons Meridionale first it occupied the
coast and solitary islet of Selsey; then it conquered the fortitude of Regnum
and the western beach as far as Eastbourne; and it finally captured
Anderida and her the oriental half of the county above to the line of the
Swamps of Romney.
Also more unlikely it is the history of the Saxon setup on the more
distant portion of the southern coast. "In the 495 aldermen two came to
Britain, Cerdic and Cynric his/her child, with five ships to that place that
it is cleped the time of Cerdices, and it fought that day of family with the Welsh."
The name of Cerdic can only clearly be invented to explain for the,
name of the place: as we freely see from the succession that the English