FOURTH TO NINTH CENTURIES 2] 
effect on the civilisation of the Saxon population. It was 
too early for a love of letters to manifest itself among a 
DANIS, 
ORTHUM 
KINGDOM OF 
KENT 
ENGLAND IN THE NINTH CENTURY. 
people whose chief notion of right was brute force, but 
ideas began to circulate, and learned thoughts to permeate ; 
not manv of these were committed to writing, but the 
