The Wessex of Romance
The Wessex of Romance
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The invaders came, but the West Saxons found Wessex hard to win ; the people were still as formidable to encounter as in the days of the Roman conquest; neither luxury nor vice had vitiated their energies, and they turned at bay with fierce powers of resistance at their command. Wessex was the name of a people, not of a land. The kingdom was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, two Saxon ealdormen, who landed on the coast of Hants in a. D. 495, assuming the kingly title after a lapse of twenty-four ye...ars. At the outset, they won a decisive victory, and this put them in possession of the open country round Winchester, thereafter to be the capital of the kingdom. A closely fought encounter occurred at Bindon Hill, Dorset, a continuation of the Purbeck chalk ridge, insulated and precipitous, a brief men- tion of the engagement being found in the Anglo- Saxon Chronicle: "Now Cynegils and Curchelm fought on Bearidune, and slew two thousand and sixty-five Welsh. " Yet, not without stern resistance did the Saxons pour westward until the district was finally conquered, the period of time occupied in 238 THE WESSEX OF ROMANCE doing so being over one hundred and twenty years.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The invaders came, but the West Saxons found Wessex hard to win ; the people were still as formidable to encounter as in the days of the Roman conquest; neither luxury nor vice had vitiated their energies, and they turned at bay with fierce powers of resistance at their command. Wessex was the name of a people, not of a land. The kingdom was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, two Saxon ealdormen, who landed on the coast of Hants in a. D. 495, assuming the kingly title after a lapse of twenty-four ye...ars. At the outset, they won a decisive victory, and this put them in possession of the open country round Winchester, thereafter to be the capital of the kingdom. A closely fought encounter occurred at Bindon Hill, Dorset, a continuation of the Purbeck chalk ridge, insulated and precipitous, a brief men- tion of the engagement being found in the Anglo- Saxon Chronicle: "Now Cynegils and Curchelm fought on Bearidune, and slew two thousand and sixty-five Welsh. " Yet, not without stern resistance did the Saxons pour westward until the district was finally conquered, the period of time occupied in 238 THE WESSEX OF ROMANCE doing so being over one hundred and twenty years.
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