Excerpt from Old Yorkshire When the Romans evacuated the island, the Britons found the Solway and Tyne wall but little protection from the incursions of the ferocious hordes of the north, who came trooping over it and spread desolation and death wherever they came. In an evil hour, to them selves, the Britons called in the aid of some wandering Teuton sea pirates, who soon drove the savages back to their northern mountains, but instead of returning as they came, when their work was accomplished, they turned their arms upon their allies, and eventually made a conquest of the whole of South Britain, excepting the mountainous districts of Wales and Cumbria, to which fastnesses the remnants of the British race were driven for refuge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.