Excerpt from A History: English Literature The Saxon conquest of Britain was very gradual. The Germanic tribes inhabiting Denmark down to the Dutch marshes - Jutes, Angles, and Saxons had often come to Britain for plunder; and their bravery was so well known that the Britons sent to them for help against the surrounding tribes, when the Romans had left them, in the beginning Of the fifth century. The Germans not only fought the enemies of the Britons, but the Britons them selves, and went on settling in the island, until the beginning of the sixth century; While the Britons took refuge in the mountainous districts of Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, and in Ireland.' The Angles seem to have been the chief among the invaders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.