IV
THE ANGLO-SAXONS
If we remember the point made two chapters back that, in their migrations, human races are usually accompanied by their domestic animals, we know at once to look across the North Sea into Western Germany for the cattle that came in to fill up the gap left by the departure of the Celtic and Roman cattle into the west and the north. The nature of the English migration is first indicated in Bede's " Ecclesiastical History." The English were eventually an amalgamation of, at least, three tribes: the Jutes from what is now Jutland, the Angles from what is now Schleswig-Holstein, and the Saxons from the country south of that and westwards towards Holland and the Frisian islands, Bede, in telling from which of these tribes the people in different parts of England are descended, says:[1] "From the Angles, that is, the country which is called Anglia, and which is said, from that time, to remain desert to this day,[2] between the
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