CHRONOLOGY ===================================================================== HISTORY | LITERATURE --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 449(?). Landing of Hengist and | Horsa in Britain | | 477. Landing of South Saxons | | 547. Angles settle Northumbria | 547. Gildas's History | 597. Landing of Augustine and his | monks. Conversion of Kent | | 617. Eadwine, king of Northumbria | | 635-665. Coming of St. Aidan. | Conversion of Northumbria | 664. Cædmon at Whitby | | 673-735. Bede | | 750 (_cir_.). Cynewulf | poems 867. Danes conquer Northumbria | | 871. Alfred, king of Wessex | 860. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle begun | 878. Defeat of Danes. Peace of | Wedmore | | 901. Death of Alfred | 991. Last known poem of the | Anglo-Saxon | period, The Battle of | Maldon, otherwise called | Byrhtnoth's Death 1013-1042. Danish period | | 1016. Cnut, king | | 1042. Edward the Confessor. Saxon | period restored | | 1049. Westminster Abbey begun | | 1066. Harold, last of Saxon kings. | Norman Conquest | ===================================================================== * * * * * CHAPTER III THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350) I. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION