The Kingdom of the English

The kingdom of the english had been fashioned over the course of three generations. And in the teeth of a desperate struggle for survival against the vikings. Over the course of the ninth century, a succession of is speaking kingdoms had been first stripped bare and then dismembered. Only one realm had held out, the land of the west, saxons wessex. Its royal family traced the foundation of its rule back to the arrival on the south coast of britain, in a d four 95, of a saxon adventurer named cherdich. The immigrants had become the rulers the natives, the aliens, walas, or foreigners as their conquerors welsh called them.