[Footnote 5: Kemble, "Saxons in England," i. 59.]

The bulk of the nation is yet Anglo-Saxon in its blind poetic tastes.

She did: she talked plain Saxon of it, and what it made of men; said no cause could sanctify a deed so vile,nothing could be holy which turned honest men into thieves and assassins.

It may be, however, here remarked that the present Saxons of Germany are of the High Germanic division of the German race, whereas both the Anglo-Saxon and Old Saxon were of the Low Germanic.

In Salisbury we have the most uniform building in our island, in Chichester the most various, for it possesses work in every style, from the time of the Saxons to that of Sir Gilbert Scott.

With Guthrum and Hinguar in their intrenched camp at the confluence of the Thames and Kennet, and fresh bands of marauders sailing up the former river, and constantly swelling the ranks of the pagan army during these summer months, there was neither time nor heart among the wise men of the West Saxons for strict adherence to the letter of the constitution, however venerable.

Now Baldulph, the brother of Colgrin, tamed by the shore, awaiting the coming of Cheldric, the king, and his Saxons from Germany.

Not only in his language, which belongs to the period of transition from Anglo-Saxon to Middle English, but in his verse and phraseology, he shows the influence of earlier Anglo-Saxon literature.

"Now, I wonder who yon youth may be," said the judge, turning to Sir Richard, "he seemeth like a stout Saxon from his red cheeks and fair hair.

That religion, which had easily made its way among the British Saxons by insinuation and address, appeared shocking to their German brethren, when imposed on them by the violence of Charlemagne, and the more generous and warlike of these pagans had fled northward into Jutland, in order to escape the fury of his persecutions.

Charlemagne Inflicts the Rite of Baptism on the Saxons After the painting by Adolph Maria Mucha.

When beaten in one place they sprang up in another, like the Saxons with whom Charlemagne contended.

But it isn't her name, exactly, only Saxon for Craydocke; suggestive of obstinacy and the Old Silurian,an ancient maiden who infests our half the wing.

Modern English is no more unlike Anglo-Saxon than a bearded man is unlike his former childish self.

Though Saxon by birth, he became ultra-Prussian in sympathy and temperament.

Berkeley, in his Naval History, p. 49, says, that at the time of the Saxon invasion, Gurthefyr or Vortimer, King of the Britons, with a fleet, opposed the Saxons under Hengist; and after an obstinate engagement, the Britons were victorious, notwithstanding the inferiority of their vessels to those of the Saxons, both in number and size.

Before the coming of the Saxons into England, the Christian Britons had three Archbishops, viz. of London, York, and Caerleon, an ancient city of South Wales.

" "You knew Effie Saxon at school, too.

There remains the larger contrast between the Latins on the one hand and the Anglo-Saxons on the other.

" [Illustration: Charlemagne inflicting Baptism upon the Saxons215] There had been absent from this great meeting a Saxon chieftain called Wittikind, son of Wernekind, king of the Saxons at the north of the Elbe.

To these, therefore, he treated them thoroughly; in some of his "Ten Sermons" the demand made upon the systematizing power of his audience was really formidable; and I have always remembered a certain lecture of his on the Anglo-Saxons as the most wonderful instance that ever came within my knowledge of the adaptation of solid learning to the popular intellect.

He had no connexion with Genoa, whither Hugo has dragged the Saxons without justification.

For a time, therefore, three languages existed side by side in the countryAnglo- Saxon among the common folk, Latin among the clergy, and Norman-French at the court and among the nobility.

Egbert, one of the kings of Wessex, reigned practically over Roman Britain when the country was invaded by the Northmen (Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes), who treated the Anglo-Saxon as the Anglo-Saxon had formerly treated the poor Briton.

We must leave Anglo-Saxon behind us.