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Thweatt
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the period between the departure of the Romans from Britain, 410 A.D.
and the Norman invasion, in 1066 A.D. the Thweatt ancestors landed in
England. We can rule out about 400 of the first 600 years as not being
the period of settlement, because the name Thweatt is not Germanic in
origin. This leaves about 250 years (800 to 1066 A.D.) for the first
Thweatt ancestors to come to England.
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history becomes authentic only at the beginning of the ninth century,
yet it is known that the Danes, occupying Jutland in 777, were strong
enough to defy the Frankish Empire by harboring fugitives. As early as
787, the Danes made their first appearance in the British Isles, and for
some centuries kept the Anglo-Saxons in a Perpetual state of anxiety.
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the Danish people, the ninth and tenth centuries were a period of emigration.
In a sense, there was already the problem of surplus population. Soon
a time came when the production of food could not keep pace with the growth
of the population. From villages and hamlets young men went out to join
the Viking armies, to conquer and make new homes. If we can take ourselves
back, in fancy, to New Year's Day, 878, and to an open plain in the vicinity
of Gloucester, we shall see the planted standard of Guthrum floating in
the wind, while from every side around, horsemen are riding into the surrounding
space, eager to learn the cause of this mid-winter summons. "It is
war, I have sworn to have England and England shall be mine."
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