The Saxons in England, Volume 1 (of 2)
A history of the English commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest
John Mitchell Kemble, a philologist trained under Jacob Grimm and one of the first English editors of Beowulf, published The Saxons in England in 1849; this edition was revised by Walter de Gray Birch. The first volume treats the original settlement of the Anglo-Saxon commonwealth. Kemble examines the legends of the conquest, then the institutions of early English society one by one: the mark, the shire, landed possession, the freeman and the noble, the king, the noble by service, the serf, the tithing and the hundred, feud and wergild, the kinds of land tenure, and the heathen religion. Charters and laws are cited throughout. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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