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170 THE MANNEK OF LIFE OF
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* !For Five Centuries Koine Lield Britai...
by Ethelbert lawlessness to Christianit and ignorance y , by A . ugustine The conversion , was the , first in a step . _» . tow 595 ards , of
civilization . In the middle of the sixth century codes of laws were compiled , and committed to writing-. Monasteries were founded ,
libraries began to be formed , and the arts and sciences to be cultivated . The second period extends from the invasion of the Danes to
their complete settlement in this country , during the reign of Canute . "Writers have described the Danish fleets as encompassing *
their England incursions " as with . Monasteries a net . " No wer portion e burnt of , libraries the coast wer was e destroyed free from ,
and the advantages of civilization were almost forgotten . The which Alfred concluded with ( ihrthriimthe Danish chief ,
stayed peace the tide of devastation . The piratical , invaders were * received as acknowledged settlers , which led to the subsequent
amalgamation of the two races . This was perfected by _Camite , under whose rule the Saxons and the Danes became one people .
It is remarkable that the -very sovereign who succeeded in Norman uniting the invasion Danes . Canute and Sax married ons , was Emma the unconscious the daughter cause of [ Richard of the
Duke of Normandy ; the " fairy ' s gift , " , as the Saxons styled her .. Through her influencethe Normans were attracted to England
and the Anglo-Saxon nobility , sent their sons for education to the foreign court . Her son Edward the Confessor fostered this custom .
Brought up in Normandy , he could not _sjDeak the Saxon tongue , and courtiers universally accepted the language , dress , and
manners of the sovereign's adopted country . At the risk of being tedious , we shall endeavour to sketch with
some minuteness , the position of women under the Saxons , their leal responsibilitiestheir domestic privilegesand their moral
ascendency g , because , we believe that it is in Saxon , institutions that we find the germ of those laws , customs , and usages , which
affect us at the present day . It may be well to begin with the Saxon In common wife , or with hlafdi other g . semi-barbarian nationsthe Saxonsat the
, , earliest period of their history , deemed it more honourable to _## _/? - ture than to woo the bride . To do so was "to be famous in
history , and to be the theme of the scalds . " When a daughter was thus forcibly carried off , two courses lay open to the
parentseither to follow the fugitives , and regain possession of theirdaughter , or to come to an amicable arrangement . The latter _,
_coiirse was so much the easiest , that , in time , it became an acknowled of ged the parties custom ; the and parents for a certain consented present to , relinquish regulated their by the daug position hter .
As the nation , grew more civilized , the idea of " selling a daughter " become distasteful . The parent accepted a- sum from * the
bridegroom , called foster-lean , as an acknowledgement for the expense
170 The Mannek Of Life Of
170 THE _MANNEK OF LIFE OF
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/26/
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