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“WESSEX had to face a determined enemy, which was the most important factor in her steady rise to power” (p. 87). “The western Wessex frontier was for two centuries practically the school of arms for England” (p. 91). After the wedge of Anglo-Saxon conquest was driven to the Severn by the battle of Deorham in 577, separating the Welsh of the Cornish peninsula from their kindred, the Welsh kingdom of Dyvnaint (Dumnonia) kept its independence for two centurfes. The Cornish kingdom held out for another century. It was the Welsh that kept this famous “school of arms” going, and it took Wessex some 350 years altogether to learn its lessons (p. 83).
Early Wars of Wessex: Being Studies from England's School of Arms in the West.
By A. F. Major. Edited by the late Chas. W. Whistler. Pp. xvi + 238. (Cambridge: University Press, 1913.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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GRIFFITH, J. Early Wars of Wesseœ: Being Studies from England's School of Arms in the West . Nature 92, 499–500 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092499a0
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