doms  of  East-Anglia,  Deira,  and  Bernicia,  which  two
last  formed  by  their  union  the  great  kingdom  of  North-
humherland.  But,  at  the  end  of  the  sixth  century,  tlic
English  had  not  got  very  far  from  the  southern  and

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98  THE   DISMEMBERMENT   OF  THE  EMPHIE.
CHAP,     eastern  coasts.      The  Britons,  whom  the  Ens^lish  called

IV.
Welsh  or  strangers,  held  out  in  the  West,  and  the
and  Scots.  Picts  and  Scots  in  the  North.  The  Scots  were  properly
the  people  of  Ireland  ;  but  a  colony  of  them  had
settled  on  the  western  coast  of  northern  Britain,  and,
in  the  end,  they  gave  the  name  of  Scotland  to  the
whole  North  of  the  island.
§  5.  The  Eastern  Empire.
