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罗经国《新编英国文学选读》（第3版）笔记和考研真题详解复习笔记
I. Historical Background（历史背景）
(1) About 450 A. D., waves of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invaded the British Isles. They settled in England, and drove the Celts into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
公元前450年左右，盎格鲁人、撒克逊人和朱特人占领了不列颠群岛。他们在英格兰定居，将凯尔特人驱逐到威尔士、苏格兰和爱尔兰。
(2) It was around 500 A. D., in the struggle against Celtic, the founder of the kingdom of Wessex, that the Celtic King Arthur, a legendary figure, is said to have acquired his fame.
在公元450年左右，威赛克斯王国的创建者，凯尔特王亚瑟在与凯尔特人的战斗中一战成名。
(3) Beginning from the later part of the 8th century, the Danes, or the Vikings, came to invade England, at first along the eastern coast, but later they threatened to overrun the whole country.
在8世纪50年代初期，丹麦人又叫北欧海盗开始统治英格兰，开始是东海岸，进而威胁到整个国家的统治。

(4) In the second half of the 9th century King Alfred, the Great of Wessex (849 - 899) led the Anglo-Saxon kings to defeat the invaders by uniting their forces.
在9世纪后半期，阿尔弗雷德国王，威赛克斯的统治者领导盎格鲁-撒克逊的国王们团结一致打败了入侵者。
(5) In the early 11thcentury all England was conquered by the Danes for 23 years. Then the Danes were expelled, but in l066 the Normans came from Normandy in northern France to attack England under the leadership of the Duke of Normandy who claimed the English throne.
在11世纪早期，整个英格兰已经被丹麦通知23年了。后来丹麦人被驱逐出境，但是1066年，罗马人从法国北部的诺曼底登陆，在诺曼底公爵的领导下袭击英格兰，宣布他对英国的统治。