A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance
CHAPTER II.
THE GERMANIC INVASION.
The mother country of the Germanic invader--Tacitus--Germans and Scandinavians--The great invasions--Character of the Teutonic nations--Germanic kingdoms established in formerly Roman provinces. Jutes, Frisians, Angles, and Saxons--British resistance and defeat--Problem of the Celtic survival--Results of the Germanic invasions in England and France 21