But the issues of the two attacks showed the mighty difference between them.

When the English ceased from their onset upon Roman Britain, Roman Britain had disappeared, and a new people of conquerors stood alone on the conquered land.

The Northern storm on the other hand left land, people, government unchanged.

England remained a country of Englishmen.

The conquerors sank into the mass of the conquered, and Woden yielded without a struggle to Christ.