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[54] Printed in Thorpe's "Analecta" (1846), p. 116.
[55] This recalls the charm that within living memory was used onDartmoor as an evening prayer:-- Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on; Two to head and two to feet, And four to keep me while I sleep.
[56] Some Runic alphabets may be seen in my "Philology of the EnglishTongue, " § 96 (ed. 3, 1879). The best collection of Runic monuments isin the two folio volumes of Professor George Stephens.
CHAPTER IV.
THE SCHOOLS OF KEN...T.
§ 1.
It is a debatable question whether any Roman culture lived through theSaxon conquest.
The Saxon conquest of Britain was certainly, on the whole, a destructiveone, and it has been justly contrasted with the Frankish conquest ofGaul; where the conquerors quickly assimilated with the conquered. Therelics of Roman civilisation which the Saxons adopted, were indeed few. This is true, as a general statement. But there is some ground forregarding Kent as a case apart. Here all accounts seem to indicate agradual and less violent intrusion of the new race, and to suggest thepossibility that there was not for that area a complete break in thetraditions and customs of life.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
[54] Printed in Thorpe's "Analecta" (1846), p. 116.
[55] This recalls the charm that within living memory was used onDartmoor as an evening prayer:-- Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on; Two to head and two to feet, And four to keep me while I sleep.
[56] Some Runic alphabets may be seen in my "Philology of the EnglishTongue, " § 96 (ed. 3, 1879). The best collection of Runic monuments isin the two folio volumes of Professor George Stephens.
CHAPTER IV.
THE SCHOOLS OF KEN...T.
§ 1.
It is a debatable question whether any Roman culture lived through theSaxon conquest.
The Saxon conquest of Britain was certainly, on the whole, a destructiveone, and it has been justly contrasted with the Frankish conquest ofGaul; where the conquerors quickly assimilated with the conquered. Therelics of Roman civilisation which the Saxons adopted, were indeed few. This is true, as a general statement. But there is some ground forregarding Kent as a case apart. Here all accounts seem to indicate agradual and less violent intrusion of the new race, and to suggest thepossibility that there was not for that area a complete break in thetraditions and customs of life.
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