The Origin and History of English in Britain, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Lingua Inglese

Scarica The Origin and History of English in Britain e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Lingua Inglese solo su Docsity! LINGUA INGLESE I THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH 1. The origins of English In the year of our Lord 449 the nation of the Angles, or Saxons, being invited by the aforesaid king, arrived in Britain with three long ships, and had a place assigned them to reside in by the same king, in the eastern part of the island, that they might thus appear to be fighting for their country, whilst their real intentions were to enslave it. Accordingly they engaged with the enemy, who were come from the north to give battle, and obtained the victory; which, being known at home in their own country, as also the fertility of the country, and the cowardice of the Britons, a more consider able fleet was quickly sent over, bringing a still greater number of men, which, being added to the former, made up an invincible army. Bede describes the invaders as belonging to the three most powerful nations of Germany - the Saxons, the Angles, and the Jutes. When the Romans first invaded Britain in the first century BC, it was inhabited by various Celtic-speaking peoples who benefited from the inclusion in the Roman empire for more than three centuries. By the late 4th century the Roman Empire was increasingly under attack, so the Romans withdrew their forces from the remotest areas of the empire. The bilingual Romano- British communities which remained came increasingly under attack from across the North Sea