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rulers held sway or were hurled from their thrones. For 
two centuries or more, spasmodic efforts were made, and 
sometimes with success, to gain for the Southerner a 
nominal superiority ; but it never meant much more, after 
Halfdene’s advent, than the allegiance the Viceroy of Egypt 
holds to the Sultan, and for practical purposes was null and 
void. 
The Yorkshire dialect, the Yorkshire speech, the Yorkshire 
race, has in it little element of Saxon, much and most of 
Scandinavian. Professor Worsae, of Denmark, says : — “ The 
popular speech in the North of England is especially remark- 
able for its correspondence with the dialects current in the 
Danish peninsula.” . . . “ The Jutland resembles the 
English language more nearly than other sections of the 
Danish language.” The Rev. J. C. Atkinson, in his intro- 
duction to his Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect (a hook which 
no library is complete without, and which I would earnestly 
recommend every North-countryman to purchase or consult), 
shows that out of 119 names of places in a given district 
investigated, 67 are indisputably of Danish origin ; that 75 
per cent, of the Domesday names of this Yorkshire district 
are certainly at least old Danish or Norse ; that in Domesday 
the old landowners were almost exclusively Danish ; that out 
of 27 names, only 2 are Anglo-Saxon ; that out of every 100 
words, only 10 per cent, are Anglo-Saxon. 
Secondly. You must remember that England, however 
galling it may be to our national pride, had been utterly and 
entirely conquered by these Scandinavian Yikings, the spirit 
of the dwellers in the South had been hopelessly broken. 
The Danes had crushed them down to a miserable and abject 
slavery. “ England has been many times conquered by 
foreigners, by which means it changed its citizens and 
population and names.” — Chronicle, Wavrin. 
“ The Danes kept them in a very degraded position, and 
