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After the Romans left, London was forsaken. The incoming Angles and Saxes at first settled nearby a town they called ''Lundenewic'', which lay outside the old town walls. Later they began living inside the old town, and it soon became a great town once again. |
After the Romans left, London was forsaken. The incoming Angles and Saxes at first settled nearby a town they called ''Lundenewic'', which lay outside the old town walls. Later they began living inside the old town, and it soon became a great town once again. |
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Revision as of 15:43, 21 July 2012
London is the headtown of England. It sits in the south-east of Great Britishland, straddling the Thames ea. Over 7,000,000 folk live within the town today.
Eretide
Fore-Romish and Romish
No one knows the ord of the name given by the Romefolk, who in the year 43 named the ord Londinium. Only a few years later Londinium was burnt down by Boudica in an uprising against Romish lordship. The great town was soon built anew, and became the headtown of the Romish shire of Britannia. The town was later named Augusta.
Angle-Saxish
After the Romans left, London was forsaken. The incoming Angles and Saxes at first settled nearby a town they called Lundenewic, which lay outside the old town walls. Later they began living inside the old town, and it soon became a great town once again.
London will hold the Olympic Games in 2012. The building of the Olympic ord has inflowed newbuilding in Eastlondon.