11) England. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
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...Originally settled by Celtic peoples, it was subsequently conquered by Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, and Normans. Acts of union joined England with Wales...
12) England. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Nation, p. 147.) 1 The Angles migrated from the east of the Elbe to Schleswig (between the Jutes and the Saxons). They passed over in great numbers to Britain during...
13) Anglo-Saxons. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The later kingdoms of Sussex, Wessex, and Essex were the outgrowths of their settlements. The Jutes, a tribe about whom very little is known except that they probably...
14) Hengist and Horsa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...revolt, and that various battles prepared the way for the later settlement of Kent by the Jutes....
15) bless. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...literally means to consecrate with blood, sprinkle with blood. The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, the early Germanic migrants to Britain, used bldsian for their pagan...
16) Wight, Isle of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...port. The island was conquered by the Romans in A.D. 43 and probably settled later by the Jutes. It was annexed to the kingdom of Wessex in 661 and Christianized...
17) k. The British Isles. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...Roman administration coincided with an intensification of Nordic pressure and the influx of Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, which permanently altered the racial base of...
18) English. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...the year 1000, and means the land of the Engle, that is, the Angles. The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes were the three Germanic tribes who emigrated from what is now Denmark...
19) 39. The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West. Wells, H.G. 1922. A
Short History of the World
...the towns, associate and intermarry, and acquire (with an accent) the Latin speech; but the Jutes, the Angles and Saxons who submerged the Roman province of Britain...
20) Great Britain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...18As Rome withdrew its legions from Britain, Germanic peoples-the Anglo-Saxons and the Jutes-began raids that turned into great waves of invasion and settlement in...
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