Abstract: Abstract Wales. Cymru. Separated from their fellow British Celts by the beginning of the eighth century A.D., the Celts of the western peninsula of Britain were consolidated into several kingdoms. Offa, the Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia, who attempted to annex all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms under his rule, ordered the construction of a rampart from the River Dee to River Wye in A.D. 782, marking the western border of the English kingdoms and hemming the British Celts, called weliscor “foreigners” by the Anglo-Saxons, into their peninsula. It was designed on the principle of Hadrian’s Wall. Any British Celts found on the English side were subject to severe penalties.
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-06-23
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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