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Early Britain

CHAPTER VIII
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Glass drinking-cups which occur amongst the tombs, were probably imported from the continent to Kent or London; and some small trade certainly existed with the Roman world, as we learn from Baeda.
In faith the English remained true to their old Teutonic myths.

Their intercourse with the Christian Welsh was not of a kind to make them embrace the religion which must have seemed to them that of slaves and enemies.

Baeda tells us that the English worshipped idols, and sacrificed oxen to their gods.

Many traces of their mythology are still left in our midst.
First in importance among their deities came Woden, the Odin of our Scandinavian kinsmen, whose name we still preserve in Wednesday (dies Mercurii).

To him every royal family of the English traced its descent.
Mr.Kemble has pointed out many high places in England which keep his name to the present day.


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