
Germanic tribes first landed.
Some say they came peaceably,
And others say mob-handed.
There were Angles, Jutes and Saxons,
Both accounts may well be right:
The majority weren't hostile,
Whereas others came to fight.
The natives were bewildered,
And resisted where they could,
But they weren't equipped for battle,
So it didn't do much good.
The homelands of these strangers
Faced a constant flooding threat:
It's difficult to grow things
When the soil is very wet.
For easier conditions,
Is all that most were wishing.
In their new home they now settled down
To farming and to fishing...
For details of my other books - Britannia's Glory and James the Third - please see the blog/post of each, both dated October 2024.
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