People groups discussed in the lecture
  

 

Representative illustration

When were they in Britain?

What was (is) their main language?

Celts

 

King Arthur

 

 

Web links: http://www.gallica.co.uk/contents.htm

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/English/people/russom/ancient/celts.html

Romans

Roman soldiers

 

 

Web links: http://homepages.iprolink.ch/~azia/Romans.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/romans/

‘Barbarians’ (Germanic tribes)

 Unruly Germanic tribes
 

 

 

Web links: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/English/people/russom/ancient/anglos.html

http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/early/pre1000/cou.html

http://www.anglo-saxon.demon.co.uk/lyfja/ghp/history.html

Vikings

Viking longboat

 

 

Web links: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/English/people/russom/ancient/norse.html

Normans

  

 William the Conqueror
 

 

 

 
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