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<b>CHAPTER ONE</b><br><b>In the Beginning</b><br>Four Invasions and a Cultural Revolution<br> <br>I felt an unconscious thrill, as if something had stirred me, half-wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond Ancient English.<br>— J. R. R. TOLKIEN<br> <br>1<br>Our story begins with a human sacrifice. Stranger than this, it starts in a Danish swamp. Perhaps strangest of all, we owe this information about the violent origins of the English-speaking world to the Roman historian Tacitus, the author of <i>Germania</i>, ‘On the Origin and Character of Germany’. The German tribes, wrote Tacitus, love freedom, their women are chaste, and there is no public extravagance; the Tencteri excel in horsemanship; the Suebi ‘tie their hair in a knot’, and so on. But no picture is perfect. There are, Tacitus continues, seven tribes about whom there is ‘nothing noteworthy’ to say, except that they worship Nerthus, the goddess Mother Earth, ‘a ceremony performed by slaves who are immediately afterwards drowned in the lake’. One of these seven barbarous tribes was ‘the Anglii’, better known to history as the Angles.<b

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Author

McCrum, Robert

Publisher

[Toronto]: Doubleday Canada

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393080926

Category

reference

Rating

3.23 / 5 (414 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13