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By Rudolph R Windsor

ISBN-10: 0962088110

ISBN-13: 9780962088117

This conscientiously reserched ebook is an important addition to this very important foeld of information. It units forth, in interesting aspect, the heritage, from earliset recorded instances, of the black races of the center East and Africa.

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The Gauls . . wasted no time; . . they flamed into the uncontrollable anger which is characteristic of their race, and set forward, with terrible speed, on the path to Rome. ' . . in spite of warnings the sheer speed of the Gallic advance was a frightful th ing.. . The ground . . was already swarming with enemy soldiers, and the air was loud with the dreadful din of the fierce war-songs and discordant shouts of a people whose very life is wild-adventure. The Romans were routed; many fled to a neighbouring town; those left in Rome withdrew to the Citadel, leaving the walls unmanned, and the streets empty: The Gauls could hardly believe their eyes, so easy, so miracu­ lously swift their victory had been.

Which is the more probable? ' found in south­ west Spain during the Roman period. Powell calls this 'the only case where the name of this widespread people found any geographical memorial' (Powell, 1958: 16). Again, however, we must invoke ear­ lier arguments. '. If the Greeks and Romans had a widespread term for barbarian peoples, it is not altogether surprising that it might appear, in their records, in a place-name (see p. 59). Edwin Ardener has discussed problems of this order at some length (see 1972; 1974), and in a recent piece he draws a picture of the anthropologist and the native chief discussing astronomy.

In the Latin of the invasion period, as in the Celtic languages, the Germanic invaders were indiscriminately Saxones - used by Gildas in expression of fear and loathing, but later a respectable Latin gloss for all varieties of Anglo-Saxon. ” The early days of the Anglo-Saxon occupation were not a planned invasion of one nation by another, but a slow and fitful process of local events, with the boundary between 'Saxon' and 'Welsh' gradually moving west. Roman Britain had imposed a kind of con­ ceptual uniformity upon the entire island south of the Forth-Clyde line.

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