This page had between 250 and 450 hits each week in 2000, so we added links for those seeking more information. In Fall 2001 useage grew to about 500-700 weekly hits. We had a total of 22,000 visits in 2001 almost 25,000 "views" in the year past (2002) bonne chance !!! We are a link (8/26/01) at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~engchs/maps.html http://www.goucher.edu/english/myers211.htm
British Timeline (and others if you play with URL): http://cedar.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb/timeline/extract.cgi?383+england#383
A General Resource Link: http://www.geocities.com/cfpchurch/biographiesetc.html Folowing Map: modified from http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/oe-map.html The traditional phrase, "Anglo-Saxon," is the common name for the various peoples who migrated from Denmark and Northern Germany to Britain about AD 450. The land was inhabited by Roman settlers and those who had been living there since the "Stone Age" ( for example those who built Stonehenge). Different warlords conquered pieces of the land, so by the 7th century England was divided into several Germanic kingdoms, as you can see on the map. The Anglo-Saxon rule ended with the Danish King Swein (Svend) and his son Canute's (Knud) conquering of most of England in 1014.
Their Religion: After the Norman invasion (1066), Anglo-Saxon tradition slowly died, but their faith had already changed. Originally, the Anglo-Saxon tribes had practiced a polytheistic Nordic religion. But the Anglo-Saxons, influenced by the Celtic missions, became Christian. The Irish church had set up a diocese at | |
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