to the conquered.

[Illustration: SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF ST. GUTHLAC SHOWING THE ATTACKS
OF THE DAEMONES]

Thus in the Anglo-Saxon life of St. Guthlac we have an interesting
glimpse into the conditions of the country and the attitude of the two
hostile races, Celts and Teutons, to each other.

"There is in Britain a fen of immense size which
begins from the river Granta, not far from the city,
which is named Grantchester ... a man named Tatwine
said that he knew an island especially obscure, which
ofttimes many men had attempted to inhabit, but no
man could do it on account of manifold horrors and
fears, and the loneliness of the wild wilderness....
No man ever could inhabit it before the holy man
Guthlac came thither on account of the dwelling of the
accursed spirits there.... There was on the island a
great mound raised upon the earth, which same of yore
men had dug and broken up in hopes of treasure....
Then in the stillness of the night it happened
suddenly that there came great hosts of the accursed
spirits, and they filled the house with their coming,
and they poured in on every side from above and
beneath and everywhere. They were in countenance
horrible, and they had great heads and a long neck and
lean visage; they were filthy and squalid in their
beards, and they had rough ears and distorted face,
and fierce eyes and foul mouths: and their teeth were
like horses' tusks, and their throats were filled with
flame, and they were grating in their voice: they had
crooked shanks and knees, big and great behind, and
distorted toes, and shrieked hoarsely with their
voices, and they came with such immoderate noises and
immense horror that it seemed to him that all between
heaven and earth resounded with their dreadful cries.
Without delay, when they were come into the house,
they soon bound the holy man in all his limbs, and
they pulled and led him out of the cottage and brought
him to the black fen and threw and sunk him in the
muddy waters. After that they brought him to the wild
places of the wilderness, among the dense thickets of
brambles that all his body was torn. After they had a
long time thus tormented him in darkness they let him
abide and stand awhile, then commanded him to depart