What ground was actually occupied may have been assigned to each group and each family in the group by lot, and Eorl and Ceorl gathered round them their laet and slave as in their homeland by the Rhine or the Elbe.

And with the English people passed to the shores of Britain all that was to make Englishmen what they are.

For distant and dim as their life in that older England may have seemed to us, the whole after-life of Englishmen was there.

In its village-moots lay our Parliament; in the gleeman of its village-feasts our Chaucer and our Shakspere; in the pirate-bark stealing from creek to creek our Drakes and our Nelsons.

Even the national temper was fully formed.