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NATURE STUDIES. 



Wales they founded a few minor settlements around 

 the south-west coast, near Milford Haven. Finally, 

 jn England itself, they occupied all Northumbria 

 (including our Yorkshire), all Lincolnshire, Norfolk 

 and Suffolk, and the greater part of the midlands. 

 Important Danish " hosts " had their centres at 

 Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Huntingdon, North- 

 ampton, and Bedford. Norwegians also settled in the 

 Lake District, till then peopled exclusively by the 

 Strathclyde Welsh. How large an element in the 

 population these Scandinavian invaders formed it 

 would, perhaps, be difficult to estimate; but they 

 must certainly have made a great accession to the 

 (number of light and fair-haired Aryan colonists. At 

 the same time, since they came as mere pirates, they 

 did not bring their women with them ; and they 

 i therefore intermarried with the people of each district 

 where they settled. Nor did they at all exterminate 

 the earlier inhabitants. In Ireland their blood was 

 thus almost lost in the prevalent Celt-Euskarian type ; 

 *n the Lake district and the Scotch Highlands it has 

 hardly had much more permanent influence ; but in 

 Eastern England, where the Scandinavians intermixed 

 with the purest Aryan stock left in Britain, they must 

 have afforded a very considerable reinforcement to the 

 light type, and their fair hair has certainly leffc its 

 mark upon a large part of the population. 



The second Scandinavian admixture came later and 

 more indirectly with the Normans from Normandy, 

 under William the Conqueror. These Normans were 



