2.3 The Early Settlers

Anglo Saxon England Podcast by David Crowther

Feb 21, 202448:49Society & Culture

The culture of the early Free farmers of the Germanic settlers valued family, kinship and lordship. Oxfordshire may have been one of the earliest areas of settlement, fitting initially into the Romano British states they...

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