Capitolo 96
The island had been brought back from Augustine and its successors
ecclesiastical, commercial, and literary union with the continent: but
any foreign war or invasion had ever broken the monotony to murder the
Welsh and harrying the surrounding English. The isolation of England was
complete. To ship-build was almost an obsolete art: and the small work
what anchor centred in London seems to have been brought above mainly in
Frisian Funds; for the Low Dutch of the continent it still held back the
habits of sea that had forgotten those of England. But a new enemy
you/he/she was now starting to appear in northern Europe--the Scandinavians. The
history of the great movement of wicking forms the subject of a separate
volume in this series: but the way in which the English satisfied him/it the wish
demands here a brief treatment. Some delineate some naked facts, however,
before you/he/she must be premises.
As I lend as 789, during the kingdom of Offa in Mercia, "three ships of
Northmen from the earth" of Haeretha entered on beach Wessex. "Then the reeve
ridden against them, and you/he/she would have driven them to the city of the king, for him
wist what they was: and there men killed him. That were the first ones
ships of Danish men that have ever looked for the earth of log English." In 795, "the
unfortunately harrying of men of pagan destroyed the church of God to Lindisfarne
island, through robbery and manslaughter." Of following year, "the
pagan harried among the Northumbrians, and you/he/she plundered Ecgberht
convent to Wearmouth." In 832, men of "pagan they devastated Sheppey"; and a
per annum later, "King Ecgberht fought against the crews of thirty-five ships
to Charmouth, and there was butchery of done muckle, and Danish held
I battle-live her/it."[1] in 835, another innkeeper came to the Welsh Of the west (now
almost meeting place to the peninsula of Cornwall): and the Welsh quickly
them joined against their Saxon end-gentleman and Of the west. Ecgberht satisfied the united one
you hinder to Hengestesdun and it put them both to migrate. It was his last