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Identifier: shorthistoryofen00chey (find matches)
Title: A short history of England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cheyney, Edward Potts, 1861-1947
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d on trading ventures. New settlerscame from Denmark and Norway to settle in the parts o( Eng-land which were tinder the rule of Danish kings and chieftains. The extent of this immigration and settlement can be tracedby the Danish names of places, which were either new settlementsor old English towns and villages renamed by their new inhabit-ants and rulers. Whereas in the Anglo-Saxon districts names ofvillages and towns usually end in ton or kam, in the districts occu-pied by the Danes or Northmen they end more commonly iior tkorpe. Gradually the whole east and much of the north cameto be more Danish than English in population, in customs, andin law. Ii was even acknowledged by the West Saxon kings to beindependent. In the unending - on their part to protect Wessex from Danish plundering they were so hard pressed thatthey were glad to) ry immunity for the west and 1 The Danish .e English m -.:. eaW and .-. gave rise to the word ..;-.. the ralei under the : .1 division of the country.
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LATER SAXON ENGLAND 63 south by yielding to the Danes the north and east. In 886 a.d.an agreement was entered into between Alfred, the West Saxonking, and Guthrum, a Danish king, defining the boundaries betweenthem as follows : First, concerning the land boundaries : uponthe Thames, and then up on the Lea, and along the Lea to itssource, then right to Bedford, then up on the Ouse to Watlingstreet.x According to this treaty England was practically dividedinto two parts, one under the Danes and one under the WestSaxon kings. Because all matters were settled by Danish law inthe former district it came to be known as the Danelaw. 46. The Danes as Traders The Danelaw differed in many respects from the more purely Anglo-Saxon parts of England.Men of this section even yet are taller and lighter in complexionthan the average of the rest of the country, and it is generallybelieved that this is due to the Danish mixture in the population.The most marked change introduced by the Danes was the ha

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