| набег саксов | foray of the Saxons. (During the same time period, the Romans (or Romano-British) had already begun to set up coastal defenses to protect their shores from the forays of the independent Anglo-Saxon tribes. • In marching forward they found old Cronth grinning in his cote; with much persuading and more threatening they learned where the Thane of Crongstone herded his cattle. After a successful foray they decided to have a feast, which with killing and eating lasted over a week. The bones and refuse of their feast was great, and the place so filthy, that Nab from the opposite hillside called it Glutton.  realmofhistory.com, wordpress.com ART Vancouver) |
