A short history of England . ntains good examples of the poetry of this period. Poetry. — Alexander Smith, Edwin of Deira. The romances ofArthur and his knights seem to refer to the period of the contest betweenthe Britons and the West-Saxon invaders, but in the only forms in whichthey can now be found they are imbued with the spirit of later medievalromance, as in Malory. Morte Darthur, or with modem ideals, as inTennyson. Idyl Special Topics.— (1) Conversion of Edwin, Bede, Ecclesiastical His-tory, Book II, chap, xii; (2) Synod of Whitby, ibid., Book III, chap, xxv;(3) Csedmon, ibid., Book I
A short history of England . ntains good examples of the poetry of this period. Poetry. — Alexander Smith, Edwin of Deira. The romances ofArthur and his knights seem to refer to the period of the contest betweenthe Britons and the West-Saxon invaders, but in the only forms in whichthey can now be found they are imbued with the spirit of later medievalromance, as in Malory. Morte Darthur, or with modem ideals, as inTennyson. Idyl Special Topics.— (1) Conversion of Edwin, Bede, Ecclesiastical His-tory, Book II, chap, xii; (2) Synod of Whitby, ibid., Book III, chap, xxv;(3) Csedmon, ibid., Book IV. chap, xxiv; (4) Beowulf, Cook and Tinker,Tram 0 .{English Poetry, 9-24; (5) Venerable Bede, Grfkn. Short Histor. chap. i. sect. 4 ; (6) Classes of People among the EarlyAnglo Saxons. Traill, Vol I. pp. [22-129; (7) Heathen Religion of theAnglo-Saxons, ibid., 140-153; (S) Establishment of Christianity, ibid., 153—161; (9) Dress and Amusements of the Anglo-Saxons, ibid., 222-227. CHAPTER V LATER SAXON ENGLAND. 830-975. 43. The Incursions of the Danes.—The supremacy obtainedby Egbert, king of the West Saxons, as has been said, was nota real union of England. No measures were taken to unite thewhole country under a government exercising its power fromWinchester, the West Saxon capital. As a matter of fact, theWest Saxon kings had now to enter into a struggle to retain anyof their dominions, for hew invaders and settlers weremaking their way into England, threatening to overwhelmthe English much as thelatter had overwhelmedthe Britons three cen-turies before. Just at the close of the eighth century, while t^ u i u j u -i Remains of a Danish Ship Egbert had been in exile y at the court of Charles the Great, these new enemies beganto ravage the shores of the British Isles and of the were known among themselves as Vikings, in Englandgenerally as Danes, in Ireland as Ostmen, and on the con-tinent as Northmen. They came from the shores of Sweden,Norway, and Denm
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