It was not till Eadgar's day that the name of Britain passed into the name of Engla-land, the land of Englishmen, England.

The same vigorous rule which secured rest for the country during these years of national union told on the growth of material prosperity.
Commerce sprang into a wider life.

Its extension is seen in the complaint that men learned fierceness from the Saxon of Germany, effeminacy from the Fleming, and drunkenness from the Dane.

The laws of AEthelred which provide for the protection and regulation of foreign trade only recognize a state of things which grew up under Eadgar.

"Men of the Empire," traders of Lower Lorraine and the Rhine-land, "Men of Rouen," traders from the new Norman duchy of the Seine, were seen in the streets of London.