Towards the end of the Roman empire, Brittania was under almost continual attack. During the fourth and fifth centuries the ...

These languages also form the North Sea type of Germanic languages. Today, it is spoken in Northern Germany and Northeastern ...

while from across the North Sea came the Germanic tribes - the Angles, Saxons and the Jutes. These events set off a whole series of language shifts on the island of Britain. The Irish invasions of ...