prince named who took this resolution and who made a treaty of ship with and two saxon both of these names in the old saxon language signify horse for the like many other nations in a rough state were fond of giving men the names of animals as horse wolf bear hound the indians of north america � a very inferior people to the though � do the same to this day and drove out the and and being grateful to them for that service made no opposition to their settling themselves in that part of england i is called the isle of or to their inviting over more of their countrymen to join them but had a beautiful daughter named and when at a feast she filled a golden to the brim with wine and gave it to saying in a sweet voice dear ring thy health the king fell in love with her my opinion is that the cunning meant him to do so in order that the england under the early might have greater with him and that the fair came to that feast golden and au on purpose at any rate they were married and long after ward whenever the king was angry with the or jealous of their b would put her beautiful arms round his neck and softly say dear king they are my people be favorable to them as you loved that saxon girl who gave you the golden of wine at the feast and really i don t see how the king could help himself ah we must all die in the course of years died � he was and put in first i am afraid and died and generations of and died and events that happened during a long long time would have been quite forgotten but for the tales and songs of the old who used to go about from feast to feast with their white the deeds c their forefathers among the histories of which they sang and talked there was a famous one con the bravery and virtues of supposed to have been a british prince in those old times but whether such a person really lived or whether there were several persons whose histories came to be together under that one name or whether all about him was invention no one knows i will tell you shortly what is most interesting in the early saxon times as they are described in these and stories of the in and long after the days of fresh bodies of under various chiefs came pouring a child s history of england into britain one body conquering the in the east and settling there called their kingdom another body settled in the west and called their kingdom the or people established themselves in one place the or people established themselves in another and gradually seven or states arose in england which were called the saxon the poor falling back before these crowds of fighting men whom they had innocently invited over as friends retired into wales and the adjacent country into and into those parts of england long remained and in now � where the sea coast is very gloomy steep and rugged � where in the dark winter time ships have been often wrecked close to the land and every soul on board has where the winds and waves howl and split the rocks into arches and � there are very ancient ruins which the people call the ruins of king arthur s castle is the most famous of the seven saxon because the christian religion was preached to the there who over the too much to care for what they said about their religion or any thing else by a from rome king of was soon converted and the moment he said he was a christian his all said they were christians after which ten thousand of his subjects said they were christians too built a little church close to this king s palace on the ground now occupied by the cathedral of se ancient england under the early the king s nephew built on a muddy place near london where there had been a temple to a church to saint peter which is now abbey and in london itself on the foundation of a temple to he built another little church which has risen up since that old time ta be saint paul s after the death of king of who was such a good king that it was said a woman or child might openly carry a purse of gold in his reign without fear allowed his child to be and held a great council to consider whether he and his people should all be christians or not it was decided that they should be the chief priest of the old religion made a great speech on the occasion in this discourse he told the people that he had found out the old gods to be i am quite satisfied of it he said look at me i have been serving them all my life and they have done nothing for me whereas if they had been really powerful they could not have decently done less in return � r all i have done for them make my fortune as they have never made my fortune i am quite convinced they are when this singular priest had finished he hastily himself with sword and lance mounted a war horse rode at a furious gallop in sight of all the people to the temple and flung his lance against it as an insult from that time the christian religion spread itself among the and became their faith the next very famous prince was he lived about a hundred and fifty years afterward and a child s history of england claimed to have a better right to the throne of than another saxon prince who was at the head of 