Comon hi of þrim folcum ðam strangestan Germanie,
þæt of Seaxum & of Angle & of
Geatum.
Of Geata fruman syndon Cantware, & Wihtsætan;
þæt is seo ðeod þe Wiht
þæt ealond oneardað.
Of Seaxum, þæt is ðam lande þe
mon hateð Ealdseaxan, coman Eastseaxan &
Suðseaxan & Westseaxan.
And of Engle coman Eastengle & Middelengle & Myrce
& eall Norðhembra cynn; is þæt
lande ðe Angulus is nemned, betwyh Geatum & Seaxum; is
sæd of þære tide hi ðanon gewiton
oð to dæge, þæt hit weste wunige.
Wæron ða ærest heora latteowas &
heretogan twegen gebroðra Hengest & Horsa.
Bede : "Historia Ecclesiastica"
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