Identifier: historyof79west00thom (find matches)
Title: History of England
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Thompson, Edith, d. 1929
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Publisher: Toronto : J. Campbell
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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that is, the Government of Seven ; but thename is misleading, as the country was never parcelledout into seven states with settled boundaries. Theywere for ever fighting, not only with the Welsh, butamong each other, and sometimes one prevailed andsometimes another. At times some one king gaineda certain authority over his fellows, in which case hois termed in the Chronicle a Bretwalda, or Wielderof Britain. 3. The British or Welsh Kingdoms.—Indie middle of the sixth century it seemed as if theisland as far as the Firths was to be divided lengtii-ways between the Welsh in the west and the Englishin the east. But by the West-Saxon conquests theBritons of West- Wales or Cornwall—that is, the presentCornwalj together with Devon and great part of Somer-set—were cut off from their brethren of North- Wales,the remnant of which is still called Wales. The con-(juests of /lulieifrith and his successors in like mannercut off the Britons of Wales from those beyond Chester To Face, Poge. 10
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,rHf BOUNOARy Of THt$NGLISH POSatSSIOMS $NpirN THUS *. SLmfordJ Geo^^Eftab^, o5 Ouu^nn id, the district round Leeds, was also an inde-pendent Welsh kingdom till the seventh century, whenit was conquered by the Northumbrian King Edivin. 4. Religion.—The faith of the English was muchthe same as that of the Teutonic tribes generally—heathenism, though not of a degraded form. Woden,called by the Danes Odin, was their chief god, thegiver of valour and victory ; after him came Thiinor,that is, Thunder, better known by his Danish name ofThor, the ruler of the sky ; and many other gods andgoddesses. The names of the days of the week, asWednesday, Wodens day, Thursday, Thors day, stillpreserve the memory of some of these deities. Thename of tiie goddess Eostrc (Easter), worshipped inthe month of April, has passed to the Christia

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