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that continued even into the eighth

That continued even into the eighth
century.
The conquered inhabitants of Great
Britain had been lately delivered from
the Roman yoke under which they
had labored for more than 400 years.
They had had but little time to re-
joice in their freedom when the Teu-
tons wrested the land again from their
possession. Due to the Roman occu-
patton. the Britons we're perhaps less
barbaric than the invaders of the ISL
and, and spoke language utterly un-
ineligible to the latter Their speech
belonged to what is known as the Gel
tic group whose modern counterparts
are found today in Wales, in Brittany
(France), in the Highlands of Scotland,
in parts of Ireland, and in the Isle of
Man.
The Jutes who were from Juteland
or Jylland, now called Jutland, settled
in Kent and the Isle of Wight. The
SaxOns went to the south and west and
SOW ShOAA houAOo W OuO hiASuOhc, INV
the counties, ending in sec. That of
the East Saxons became Essex, of the
Middle Saxons, Middlesex, and of the
West Saxons, Wessex. The Angles Sc
lected the east coast for their home,
and the kingdom of East Anglia was
divided into North Folk and South
Folk, now the counties of Norfolk and
Suffolk. The Angles also later gave
their name to the whole southern part
of the large island of Britain, "Angle-
land" later modified and softened into
England.
These three sets of Teutons spoke
different dialects of the same speech,
and these dialects, together with cer-
tain racial peculiarities and habits,
took root in English soil, and lived an
independent life, apart from each 9TH
er, and uninfiuenced by each other for
several hundreds of years. But in the
slow course of time they joined together
to form the Anglo-Saxon or English
AohS uoSS,A Al uASu, UuC Col Oh VI
seeker may still find traces of the dia-
lectic forms. This slowness in coales-
cling is characteristic in the history of
any differing speech, and in those days
the difficulties of travel and of COM
munication of any kind must also be
taken into consideration. As time
went on gradual welding of the dia-
lects did occur, and with it the king
doms combined and united England
had its birth.
The Anglo-Saxon differed from
modern English in having a much
larger number of infections. 1t was
a synthetic or built-up language like
the German, while our modern tongue
is distinctly analytic, or one which re-
lations are expressed by particles
propositions and the like. The Anglo
Saxon vocabulary contained very few
foreign words, and contact with the
ancient BritOns in those early DAYS
added fewer than twenty to the origin
al list. This is of course exclusive of
the names of rivers, mountains, and
other natural features, which were
kept, for the most part, unchanged.
In other words, during the youth of
England's history her language grew
from within, and when new word or
new idea was needed, it was coined
or built up as the case required
About the end of the eighth century
the Norsemen, more commonly called
the Danes, made their appearance on
the coast of Great Britain and attacked
the settlements of the English. These
: incursions became more and more FIRE.
quent until, in the ninth century, the
Danes succeeded in gaining perma.
nent foothold in England, and finally
In the early part of the eleventh cen.
tury, for about thirty years a Danish
dynasty occupied the throne. AS re-
, suit words from without crept into the
native speech and tine Anglo-Saxor
had grated upon it one of the branch
, es, which, in later years, have almost
obscured the parent tree.
/ During this time another influence
, had been at work. In 596 A. d. Pope
Gregory sent over to Kent mission
} ary called Augustine and with hin
3 forty monks. They were allowed tt
/, settle in Canterbury and to build {
! small cathedral. This mission, tht
) churches that grew out Of it, and tn.