History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . rchills curious work, DiviBrittanici, also in Brunets Eegal Armorie of Great Britain. The origin of the standard of the three saxes or swords ofEssex, 530, is thus explained: The Roman Empire was invaded in the second century by a tribe ofGoths wearing a crooked sabre called saex, from which the tribe derived thename of Saxons. These S
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . rchills curious work, DiviBrittanici, also in Brunets Eegal Armorie of Great Britain. The origin of the standard of the three saxes or swords ofEssex, 530, is thus explained: The Roman Empire was invaded in the second century by a tribe ofGoths wearing a crooked sabre called saex, from which the tribe derived thename of Saxons. These Saxons con-quered that part of Germany washed bythe Elbe, which they named , uniting with the Jutes and An-^«^^3^:^S^aHK^^^^^?s» gjgg^ they became powerful pirates or The Three Saxes or Swords of Essex. sCa-kingS, and COUquered thrCC CautOUS in Britain, which they erected into kingdoms, named South-Sax, East-Sax, and West-Sax, — that is to say, the Saxons of the south,east, and west, — whose contractions are Sussex, Essex, and chiefs or kings of these cantons having formed an alliance, hoisteda standard bearing three saxes or swords as an emblem of their tripleunion and common origin. The three swords of the Saxon standard. 122 THE .SYMli(», .SlANDAKl*.-, AM) UANNLKS were damasceued with Gothic hieiu;4lyphics, and iliuir tyi»i. has beenpreserved in the armorial bearings of Ivssex. Edillrid, \.i). 5*J2-G1G, a Saxon king of ]5ernicia, in the nortli !Northumberknd, liad a standard called the tufa, which exhibited abear, a Koman emblem of the polestar and the ancient ensign of War-wick, the capital of Bernicia. The bear was also the device on thestreamer of Bangor, iu AVales.^ The Anglo-Saxons estal)lislied eight kingdoms in I>ritain, l»utEdwin, the successor of EdiliVid, united the kingd(jms of Bernicia andDecia, by the name of the kingdom of Northumberland, and assumedthe title of Bretwalda, or ruler of Britain, as presiding at the Witeu-agemot
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