LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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victor over King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066
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the occupation of British descendants of Vikings who had settled on the coast of France
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invaders of the British Isles, starting around 800 B.C. and resuming again after the Roman withdrawal in A.D. 407
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king who resisted Danish encroachment in England and concluded a treaty in 886
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Detailed explanation-1: -Between 800 and 600 B.C., two groups of Celts from southern Europe invaded the British Isles. The Brythons (Britain) settled on the largest island, Britain. the second groups was called the Gaels; they settles on the second largest island, now called Ireland.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Anglo-Saxons settled in the eastern parts of Britain, in what is today Kent, Sussex, Essex, and East Anglia. The majority of the native, British, population either remained where they were, or migrated (moved) west, to what became Wales and Cornwall.
Detailed explanation-3: -When the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians invaded Britain, during the 5th and 6th centuries AD, the area they conquered slowly became known as England (from Angle-land).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Anglo-Saxon period in Britain spans approximately the six centuries from 410-1066AD. The period used to be known as the Dark Ages, mainly because written sources for the early years of Saxon invasion are scarce.