Other Saxons settled in Essex and Middlesex.  The Angles, says Bede, came from “the country called Angelland, and it is said from that time to remain desert to this day.”  There is a part of the duchy of Schleswig, to the north of Holstein, which still bears the name of Anglen.  These people gave their name to the whole country, Engla-land, or Angla-land, from the greater extent of territory which they permanently occupied.  As the Saxons possessed themselves of the southern coasts, the Angles established themselves on the northeastern.  Their kingdom of East Anglia comprised Norfolk and Suffolk, as well as part of Cambridgeshire; and they extended themselves to the north of the Humber, forming the powerful state of Northumbria, and carrying their dominion even to the Forth and the Clyde.

The Jutes came from the country north of the Angles, which is in the upper part of the present Schleswig; and they occupied Kent and the Isle of Wight, with that part of Hampshire which is opposite the island.  Sir Francis Palgrave is of opinion that “the tribes by whom Britain was invaded appear principally to have proceeded from the country now called Friesland; for of all the continental dialects the ancient Frisick is the one which approaches most nearly to the Anglo-Saxon of our ancestors.”  Mr. Craik has pointed out that “the modern kingdom of Denmark comprehends all the districts from which issued, according to the old accounts, the several tribes who invaded Britain upon the fall of the Roman Empire.  And the Danes proper (who may be considered to represent the Jutes); the Angles, who live between the Bight of Flensborg and the river Schley on the Baltic; the Frisons, who inhabit the islands along the west coast of Jutland, with a part of the bailiwick of Husum in Schleswig; and the Germans of Holstein (Bede’s Old Saxons) are still all recognized by geographers and ethnographers as distinct races.”

ATTILA INVADES WESTERN ROME

BATTLE OF CHALONS

A.D. 451

CREASY GIBBON

After Attila had conquered and laid waste the provinces of the Eastern Empire south of the Danube and exacted heavy tribute from Theodosius II, he turned his attention to the subjugation of the Slavic and Germanic tribes who still remained independent.  These, with one exception, he overcame and placed under the sovereignty of his son.  He laid claim to one-half of the Western Empire, as the betrothed husband of Valentinian’s sister Honoria, from whom he had years before received the offer of her hand in marriage.

In 451, with Genseric, King of the Vandals, for his ally, he invaded Gaul.  Before his advance the cities hastened to capitulate, and so complete was his devastation of the country that it came to be a saying that the grass never grew where his horses had trod.  But in Aetius,