Anglo-Saxons; Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
Æthelbald of Mercia, 117
Æthelberht of Kent, 85
Æthelberht of Wessex, 129
Æthelflæd of Mercia, 142
Æthelfrith of Northumbria, 53, 62
Æthelred of Wessex, 130
Æthelred the Unready, 164
Æthelstan of Wessex, 144
Æthelwulf of Wessex, 124
Aidan of Lindisfarne, 95
Akerman, Mr., on survival of Celts, 59
Anderida, 30, 41
Anglo-Saxons, 8;
their religion, 16;
language, 174
Architecture, 155
Aryans, 1
Augustine, St., of Canterbury, arrives in England, 85;
colloquy with Welsh bishops, 93
Bæda, 61;
his life, 109;
his writings, 213, and _passim_
Bamborough built, 34;
princes of, 134, 144
Bayeux, Saxon settlement at, 22
Benedict Biscop, 109
Beowulf, 185, 206, and _passim_
Bercta, queen of Kentmen, 85
Bernicia settled, 34;
coalesces with Deira, 35
Boulogne, Saxon settlement at, 22
Brunanburh, battle of, 145
ballad on, 204, 218
Burhred of Mercia, 131
Cadwalla, 92, 94
Cædmon the poet, 103;
his epic, 209
Cerdic the Briton, 31, 67
Cerdic the West Saxon, 24, 31
Chester, battle of, 58
Chronicle, English, 63;
its origin and nature, 216;
quoted, _passim_
Clans, 8, 43;
meanings of their names, 80;
occurrence in different shires, 81
Cnut, 169
Coifi the priest, 89
Count of the Saxon Shore, 22
Cuthberht of Lindisfarne, 97
Cuthwine of Wessex, 51
Cuthwulf of Wessex, 50
Cynewulf the poet, 214
Cynewulf of Wessex, 119
Danish invasions, 123 _et seq._
Dawkins, Prof. Boyd, 2
Deira settled, 34
Deorham, battle of, 51
Dunstan, 147
Eadgar of Wessex, 147
Eadmund of East Anglia, 130
Eadward (the Elder), 141
Eadward (the Confessor), 170
Eadwine of Northumbria, 63;
converted, 88
East Anglia colonised, 36;
conquered by Danes, 130
Ecgberht of Wessex, 120
Elmet, 35;
conquered by English, 67
English (or Anglians), 5;
their language, _see_ Anglo-Saxons
English Chronicle, _see_ Chronicle, English
Essex colonised, 36
Felix converts East Anglia, 96
Freeman, Dr. E.A., 57, 64, 65, 69, and _passim_
Frisians, 5;
as slave merchants, 75;
ships, 123;
employed by Ælfred, 139
Germanic race, 4
Gewissas, 37
Gildas, 28, 47;
his book, 60
Gregory the Great sends mission to England, 85
Grimm's Law, 175
Guthrum the Dane, 137
Gyrwas, 49
Hæsten the pirate, 138, 141
Harold, 170
Hastings, battle of, 171
Heathendom, 16, 71
Hengest, 28
Horsa, 28
Huxley, Prof., on English Ethnography, 5
Hyring, king of Bernicia, 33
Ida of Northumbria, 25, 32;
his pedigree, 46
Iona, 93
Jutes, 5;
settle in Kent, 23, 28;
in the Isle of Wight, 24, 37;
in Northumbria, 32
Kemble, on British in towns, 65;
on Celtic personal names in England, 66
Kent, settled by Jutes, 23, 28;
converted, 85
Lincolnshire colonised, 35;
converted, 91
Lindisfarne, 95
Loidis, 35
London, 37, 158
Lothian, originally English, 35;
unconquered by Danes, 135;
granted to king of Scots, 149
Low Germans, 5;
their language, 176
Marriage in heathen times, 74, 81
Meonwaras, 37
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