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<h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Britons and Saxons In Pre-Viking Wessex: Reflections on the Law 77 of King Ine</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Grimmer, Martin</span> (2002) <xhtml:em>Britons and Saxons In Pre-Viking Wessex: Reflections on the Law 77 of King Ine.</xhtml:em> Parergon: Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 19 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN 0313-6221</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_3193' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2439/1/Britons_and_Saxons1.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_3193' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_3193"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2439/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2439/1/Britons_and_Saxons1.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />498Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://www.parergon.arts.uwa.edu.au/">http://www.parergon.arts.uwa.edu.au/</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Saxons arrived in the south of Britain in the third quarter of the fifth century. Successive ship-loads of invaders progressively defeated the Britons of Kent, Sussex and southern Wessex, before moving north up the Thames Valley and beyond, establishing themselves over muchoftheterritory oftheRomano-Britons.2 Bede's His/aria ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, on which a proportion of the early materia) in the Chronicle is based, tells of Angle, Saxon and Jutish mercenaries invited to protect Britain from foreign incursion, but who rebel against their ‘cowardly British’ patrons, their real intention being to subdue the island of for themselves.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/420201.html">420000 Language and Culture > 420200 Literature Studies > 420201 British and Irish</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/420200.html">420000 Language and Culture > 420200 Literature Studies</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/430000.html">430000 History and Archaeology</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">2439</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Scholarly Publications Librarian</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">22 Nov 2007 13:31</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=2439;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=2439">item control page</a></p>
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