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Abbreviated contents of
The Origins and Early History of the English
Introduction
1: The 'long ago' roots of the English
The first homeland of the Indo-Europeans
–Tacitus’ sketch of the Germani
2: Offa of Angeln -
Offa in Widsith and Beowulf
3: The stage set
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Why did the migration occur?
4: The eastern seaboard: the takeover of ‘going
concerns’?
East Anglia – Oars or sail? - Lindsey –
Deira – Essex –
A
Chilterns/London enclave? – ‘Greater’ Essex
Kent –
King Æthelberht
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Bernicia
5: The
South
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Sussex – The
coming of the Jutes
6: Moving
inland
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Surrey/Berkshire
– Middle/Upper Thames –Wessex
7: The
Britons fight back
Twelve battles – Where was Badon? – Five
‘tyrants’
8:
Westward expansion -
Middle Angles –
Mercia – Ceawlin of Wessex
9: The
Western marches
Hwicce – Magonsæte – Pecsætna – Wreocensætan
10:Wars in the North, Lords of war
Æthelfrith – Edwin – Oswald - Oswiu – Penda
of Mercia –
The
making of Northumbria
11:
British kingdoms of the south-west
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Dumnonia
Appendices –
Early Sources – Bibliography - Journals
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