8. What was the condition of the common people?
15. Describe the cottages of the poor.
16. How did the Saxons dress?
21. What were ceorls? and what were thralls?
22. Describe the house of a Saxon chief.
CHAPTER V.
THE DANES AND ALFRED THE GREAT.
ALFRED THE GREAT.
1. It was nearly 380 years after the first Saxons came here with their two pirate chiefs, Hengist and Horsa, that England began to have only one king.