he settled in Britain, brought with him the Teutonic
organisation in its entirety. He established
it throughout the whole territory which he occupied
or conquered. As the West Saxon over-lordship
grew to be the English kingdom, and as the English
kingdom gradually annexed or coalesced with the Welsh
and Cornish principalities, the Scotch and Irish kingdoms,—the
Teutonic system spread over the whole of Britain.
It underwent some little modification at the hands
of the Normans, and more still at those of the Angevins;
but, on the whole, it is still a wide yet natural
development of the old Germanic constitution.
Thus, to sum up in a single sentence, the Anglo-Saxons
have contributed about one-half the blood of Britain,
or rather less; but they have contributed the whole
framework of the language, and the whole social and
political organisation; while, on the other hand, they
have contributed hardly any of the civilisation, and
none of the religion. We are now a mixed race,
almost equally Celtic and Teutonic by descent; we
speak a purely Teutonic language, with a large admixture
of Latin roots in its vocabulary; we live under Teutonic
institutions; we enjoy the fruits of a Graeco-Roman
civilisation; and we possess a Christian Church, handed
down to us directly through Roman sources from a Hebrew
original. To the extent so indicated, and to that
extent only, we may still be justly styled an Anglo-Saxon
people.
AElfheah of Canterbury, 168
AElfred the West Saxon, 136;
his life, 139;
his death, 140;
his writings, 216
AElle of Sussex, 24, 30
AEsc the Jute, 29
AEthelbald of Mercia, 117
AEthelberht of Kent, 85
AEthelberht of Wessex, 129
AEthelflaed of Mercia, 142
AEthelfrith of Northumbria, 53, 62
AEthelred of Wessex, 130
AEthelred the Unready, 164
AEthelstan of Wessex, 144
AEthelwulf 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
Baeda, 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
