16 ANGLO-SAXONS III. 5 — 7.
5. The Angles (Engle), from Sleswick in the south of Denmark, about
a.d. 527, settled themselves in East Anglia, containing Norfolk, Suffolk,
Cambridge, and part of Bedfordshire. — Ida, in a.d. 547, began to establish
himself in Bernicia, comprehending Northumberland, and the south of
Scotland between the Tweed and the Firth of Forth.— About a.d. 559,
Ella conquered Deira [DeoramaegS] lying between the Humber and the
Tweed, including the present counties of York, Durham, Northumberland,
Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire. — Mercia was formed into an
independent state by Crida, about a.d. 586, and comprehended the counties
of Chester, Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln, Leicester, Northampton, Rut-
land, Huntingdon, the north of Beds, and Hertford, Warwick, Bucks,
Oxon, Worcester, Hereford, Gloucester, Stafford, and Salop. Thus, one
Jute, three Saxon, and four Angle, altogether eight kingdoms, were
established in Britain, by the year 586.*

6. The Angles emigrated so numerously as to leave Anglen, their
original district, destitute of inhabitants. Though the Friesians are not
named as uniting in the first conquest of Britain, it is clear, from their
locality, that many of them accompanied the other Teutonic tribes.f
Those now settled in Britain were denominated Anglo-Saxons to show
their origin ; Anglo-Saxon denoting that the people so called were
the Angles, a nation coming from the Saxon confederacy. In sub-
sequent times, when the Angles had been alienated from the Saxon
confederacy by settling in Britain, they denominated that part of this
kingdom which they inhabited Engla-land, the land of the Angles,
Angle's land, which was afterwards contracted into England.
