INDEX.

Ælfheah of Canterbury, 168

Ælfred the West Saxon, 136; his life, 139; his death, 140; his writings, 216

Ælle of Sussex, 24, 30

Æsc the Jute, 29

Æthelbald of Mercia, 117

Æthelberht of Kent, 85

Æthelberht of Wessex, 129

Æthelflæd of Mercia, 142

Æthelfrith of Northumbria, 53, 62

Æthelred of Wessex, 130

Æthelred the Unready, 164

Æthelstan of Wessex, 144

Æthelwulf of Wessex, 124

Aidan of Lindisfarne, 95

Akerman, Mr., on survival of Celts, 59

Anderida, 30, 41

Anglo-Saxons, 8; their religion, 16; language, 174

Architecture, 155

Aryans, 1

Augustine, St., of Canterbury, arrives in England, 85; colloquy with Welsh bishops, 93

Bæda, 61; his life, 109; his writings, 213, and passim

Bamborough built, 34; princes of, 134, 144

Bayeux, Saxon settlement at, 22

Benedict Biscop, 109

Beowulf, 185, 206, and passim

Bercta, queen of Kentmen, 85

Bernicia settled, 34; coalesces with Deira, 35

Boulogne, Saxon settlement at, 22

Brunanburh, battle of, 145 ballad on, 204, 218

Burhred of Mercia, 131

Cadwalla, 92, 94

Cædmon the poet, 103; his epic, 209

Cerdic the Briton, 31, 67

Cerdic the West Saxon, 24, 31

Chester, battle of, 58

Chronicle, English, 63; its origin and nature, 216; quoted, passim

Clans, 8, 43; meanings of their names, 80; occurrence in different shires, 81

Cnut, 169

Coifi the priest, 89

Count of the Saxon Shore, 22

Cuthberht of Lindisfarne, 97

Cuthwine of Wessex, 51

Cuthwulf of Wessex, 50

Cynewulf the poet, 214

Cynewulf of Wessex, 119

Danish invasions, 123 et seq.

Dawkins, Prof. Boyd, 2

Deira settled, 34

Deorham, battle of, 51

Dunstan, 147

Eadgar of Wessex, 147

Eadmund of East Anglia, 130

Eadward (the Elder), 141

Eadward (the Confessor), 170

Eadwine of Northumbria, 63; converted, 88

East Anglia colonised, 36; conquered by Danes, 130

Ecgberht of Wessex, 120

Elmet, 35; conquered by English, 67

English (or Anglians), 5; their language, see Anglo-Saxons

English Chronicle, see Chronicle, English

Essex colonised, 36

Felix converts East Anglia, 96

Freeman, Dr. E.A., 57, 64, 65, 69, and passim

Frisians, 5; as slave merchants, 75; ships, 123; employed by Ælfred, 139

Germanic race, 4

Gewissas, 37

Gildas, 28, 47; his book, 60

Gregory the Great sends mission to England, 85

Grimm's Law, 175

Guthrum the Dane, 137

Gyrwas, 49

Hæsten the pirate, 138, 141

Harold, 170

Hastings, battle of, 171

Heathendom, 16, 71

Hengest, 28

Horsa, 28

Huxley, Prof., on English Ethnography, 5

Hyring, king of Bernicia, 33

Ida of Northumbria, 25, 32; his pedigree, 46

Iona, 93

Jutes, 5; settle in Kent, 23, 28; in the Isle of Wight, 24, 37; in Northumbria, 32

Kemble, on British in towns, 65; on Celtic personal names in England, 66

Kent, settled by Jutes, 23, 28; converted, 85

Lincolnshire colonised, 35; converted, 91

Lindisfarne, 95

Loidis, 35

London, 37, 158

Lothian, originally English, 35; unconquered by Danes, 135; granted to king of Scots, 149

Low Germans, 5; their language, 176

Marriage in heathen times, 74, 81

Meonwaras, 37

Mercia colonised, 49; its rise under Penda, 92; its supremacy, 117; conquered by Wessex, 122; by the Danes, 131

Monasteries, 102

Nennius, 32, 67

Nithard, 9

Northumbria settled, 32; converted, 88; conquered by Danes, 130

Notitia Imperii, 22

Offa of Mercia, 117; his dyke, 118

Oswald of Northumbria, 94

Oswiu of Northumbria, 95

Palgrave, Sir F., 66

Paulinus, 88

Penda of Mercia, 91, 94

Phillips, Prof., on Celtic blood in Yorkshire, 57

Port, mythical hero, 31

Rolleston, Prof., on Anglo-Saxon barrows, 25; on survival of Celts, 59

Ruim, old name of Thanet, 23

Runes, 97

Salisbury conquered by English, 50

Saxons, 5; English, so called by Celtic races, 21; settle in Sussex, 24; in Essex, 36; in Wessex, 37

Saxons, Old, 7; their constitution, 9

Ships of bronze age, 19; of iron age, 20; king Ælfred's, 139

Stubbs, Rev. Canon, 120, and passim

Sussex settled, 24, 29

Swegen, 165

Taylor, Rev. Isaac, on Hundreds, 68

Teutonic race, 4

Thanet, 23

Theodore of Canterbury, 107

Thunor, 16; his worship, 77

Towns, 157

Totemism, 79

Vortigern, 28

Wessex settled, 24, 31

Whitby, synod of, 97; abbey at, 103

Wight, settled by Jutes, 23

Wihtgar, 31

Wilfrith of York, 97, 105, 108

Winchester, 37, 158

Winwidfield, 96

Woden, 16, 46; his worship, 76

THE END.

WYMAN AND SONS, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LONDON, W.C.

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The simple vowels, as a rule, have their continental pronunciation, approximately thus: [=a] as in father, [)a] as in ask; [=e] as in there, [)e] as in men; [=i] as in marine, [)i] as fit; [=o] as in note, [)o] as in not; [=u] as in brute, [)u] as in full; [=y] as in grün (German), [)y] as in hübsch (German).