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3rd Meeting - The Saxon Invasion
3rd Meeting - The Saxon Invasion
INVASION
Third Meeting
THE INVADERS
Around 4th century Germanic
tribes came to raid Britain. But
then, starting from AD 430 (5th C)
they began to settle.
The new comers were warlike and
illiterate.
Ecclesiastical History of the English
People (by Thomas Bede) told
much about the invaders.
THE INVADERS
The invaders came from three
powerful Germanic tribes: