s. 5. _Second settlement of invaders from Germany._--In the year 477
invaders from Northern Germany made the second permanent settlement in
Britain. The coast of Sussex was the spot whereon they landed. The
particular name that these tribes gave themselves was that of _Saxons_.
Their leader {3} was Ella. They established the kingdom of the South Saxons
(Sussex); so that the county of Sussex was the second district where the
original British was superseded by the mother-tongue of the present
English, introduced from Northern Germany.
s. 6. _Third settlement of invaders from Germany._--In the year 495
invaders from Northern Germany made the third permanent settlement in
Britain. The coast of Hampshire was the spot whereon they landed. Like the
invaders last mentioned, these tribes were Saxons. Their leader was Cerdic.
They established the kingdom of the West Saxons (Wessex); so that the
county of Hants was the third district where the original British was
superseded by the mother-tongue of the present English, introduced from
Northern Germany.
s. 7. _Fourth settlement of invaders from Germany._--A.D. 530, certain
Saxons landed in Essex, so that the county of Essex was the fourth district
where the original British was superseded by the mother-tongue of the
present English, introduced from Northern Germany.
s. 8. _Fifth settlement of invaders from Germany._--These were _Angles_ in
Norfolk and Suffolk. This settlement, of which the precise date is not
known, took place during the reign of Cerdic in Wessex. The fifth district
where the original British was superseded by the mother-tongue of the
present English was the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk; the particular
dialect introduced being that of the _Angles_.
s. 9. _Sixth settlement of invaders from Germany._--In the year 547
invaders from Northern Germany made the sixth permanent settlement in
Britain. The south-eastern counties of Scotland, between the rivers Tweed
and Forth, were the districts where they landed. They were of the tribe of
the Angles, and their leader was Ida. The south-eastern parts of Scotland
constituted the sixth district where the original British was superseded by
the mother-tongue of the present English, introduced from Northern Germany.
s. 10. It would be satisfactory if these details rested upon cotemporary
evidence; in which case the next question would {4} be that of the
relations of the immigrant tribes to each other _as Germans_, _i.e._ the
extent to which the Jute differed from (or agreed with) the Angle, or the
Saxon, and the relations of the Angle and the Saxon to each other. Did they
speak different languages?--different dialects of a common tongue!--or
dialects absolutely identical? Did they belong to the same or to different
confederations? Was one polity common to all? Were the civilizations
similar?
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