Anglo-Saxon Britain

by Grant Allen

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INDEX.

• Ælfheah of Canterbury, [168]
• Ælfred the West Saxon, [136];
  • his life, [139];
  • his death, [140];
  • his writings, [216]
• Ælle of Sussex, [24], [30]
• Æsc the Jute, [29]
• 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]