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A. D.
758-793. Internal Condition of Northumbria 39, 40
Its Religious and Intellectual Life 40, 41
793-806. Invasion of the Northmen and its Results 42
The Apparent Strength of Mercia 43
Its Real Weakness 43
The Superiority of Wessex Derived from the Character of the Country 44, 45
From the Varied Composition of the Kingdom 45
From its Administrative Order 45, 46
The Character of Ecgberht's Supremacy 46, 47
CHAPTER II.
THE COMING OF THE WIKINGS. 829-858.
787. The First Coming of the Pirates 48, 49
793, 794 Their Raids on Northumbria 49
The Significance of their Attack 49, 50
Growth of the Scandinavian Peoples 51
Conditions of their Life 51 - 53
Character of their Country 53, 54
Their Early Customs and Religion 55, 56
The Wikings 56
Their Mode of Warfare 56, 57
The Causes of their Wanderings 57, 58
The Two Lines of their Attack on Europe 59
Settlement of the Northmen in South Jutland 60
800. Their Attack on the Franks 60
810. The Death of Godfrid and Civil War in South Jutland 61
834. Descent of the Northmen on the Isle of Sheppey 62
820. Their Descent on Ireland 63
832 Thorgil's Settlement in Ireland 64
Its Effect in Arousing the West Welsh to Arms 64
Effect of the Pirate Attacks in Arresting the Consolidation of England 65
The Political Relations of Wessex and Kent 66
The Military Resources of Wessex 66, 67
Relation of the Church to the Frankish Kings 67
Peculiar Position of the English Bishops 68
National Character of the Church 69
Effect upon the Church of the Pirate Invasion 69
838. Its Alliance with the West-Saxon Kings 70
839. Death of Ecgberht and Accession of Æthelwulf 70
837 et seq. Extension of the Wiking Settlement in Ireland 71
837-845. The Wikings Attack Wessex 72
845. Death of Thorgils 72
845-848. The Pirates Leave Wessex to Attack Frankland 73
Importance of Kent 74
838. Pirate-raids on East Anglia and Kent 75
851. Æthelwulf's Victory at Aclea 76

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Conquest of England. Contributors: John Richard Green - author, Alice Stopford Green - author. Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1884. Page Number: xvi.
    
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