Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English language.

This is episode 29, the Anglo-Saxon invasion.

In this episode, we're going to explore the invasion of Britain by the Anglo-Saxons.

And specifically, we're going to look at the period from around the year 410, when the

Roman Empire abandoned Britain until around the year 600.

Now these two centuries are sometimes called the lost centuries of British history because

so little is known about what happened with any certainty.

As we know by now, the Anglo-Saxons were illiterate, so they didn't keep a chronicle

of events as they happened.

The few written accounts that we do have come from a small handful of individuals, mostly

monks and bishops who wrote in Latin.

So in this episode, we'll explore those bits and pieces of information, and we'll try

to piece together what happened during those two centuries in which a large portion

of Britain passed to the Anglo-Saxons, and in the process began to speak the language

of the Anglo-Saxons.

But before I begin, I wanted to mention that I've completely redesigned the website for

the podcast, historyofenglishpodcast.com.

The new website is specifically designed to work with any media device, so it'll automatically

work with a PC or tablet, smartphone, or any other media device with access to the web.

I've also taken the opportunity to reconfigure and remaster some of the old episodes, and

I save them to a new server.

Now, I'm going to release a bonus episode before the next regular episode of the podcast.

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