“When the Romans failed to respond ‘all the members of the
British council, together with the proud tyrant’, decided to hire Saxons ‘to
beat back the peoples of the North’. Soon, however, the Saxons turned against the
Britons, inflicting an even more deadly ‘plague’: many towns were destroyed,
and most of the survivors were either ‘butchered in the mountains’ or fled to ‘lands
beyond the sea’. “
This quotation highlights how brutal the Saxons were. It also shows the spite that the Britons has against the Romans. An interesting play on words comes when they say it was a deadlier plague, which proved an interesting analogy.
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