THE ENGLISH KINGDOMS 577-796 [Sidenote: Britain becomes England] With the victory of Deorham the conquest of the bulk of Britain was complete.

Eastward of a line which may be roughly drawn along the moorlands of Northumberland and Yorkshire through Derbyshire and the Forest of Arden to the Lower Severn, and thence by Mendip to the sea, the island had passed into English hands.

Britain had in the main become England.

And within this new England a Teutonic society was settled on the wreck of Rome.

So far as the conquest had yet gone it had been complete.