The Two Lost Centuries of Britain
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Skene's maps be fair criteria of it in later times ; but here, the temptation being less, the attack was no doubt light also. From so remote a quarter no enemy could gain access to the heart of the land.
But there had long been danger from Lindsey by way of Lindom and Leicester, from York by way of Chester ; and it was very great and urgent now along the quite open frontier to the north of Southampton water. Only a thin screen of bushy woodlands here, a low crest-line, with valleys breaking thr...ough. Be- fore long even these were passed, and the invaders 128 THE TWO LOST CENTURIES OF BRITAIN.
entered on the fair and fertile upland which had been the chief heritage of the Belgae.
May we suppose that the great British Guledig had foreseen this and taken his measures accordingly? There was but one adequate way of defending the in- defensible, and that way he had chosen. All material bulwarks failing, he would and did erect a rampart of zeal. Where the Saxon saw only a fertile and inviting land, unwalled, thrown open to the air, his for all ravage and plunder, he came to feel the presence of a fighting holy of holies.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Skene's maps be fair criteria of it in later times ; but here, the temptation being less, the attack was no doubt light also. From so remote a quarter no enemy could gain access to the heart of the land.
But there had long been danger from Lindsey by way of Lindom and Leicester, from York by way of Chester ; and it was very great and urgent now along the quite open frontier to the north of Southampton water. Only a thin screen of bushy woodlands here, a low crest-line, with valleys breaking thr...ough. Be- fore long even these were passed, and the invaders 128 THE TWO LOST CENTURIES OF BRITAIN.
entered on the fair and fertile upland which had been the chief heritage of the Belgae.
May we suppose that the great British Guledig had foreseen this and taken his measures accordingly? There was but one adequate way of defending the in- defensible, and that way he had chosen. All material bulwarks failing, he would and did erect a rampart of zeal. Where the Saxon saw only a fertile and inviting land, unwalled, thrown open to the air, his for all ravage and plunder, he came to feel the presence of a fighting holy of holies.
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