Exin Brittania in parte Brettonum, omni armato milite, militaribus copiis universis, tota floridae iuventutis alacritate spoliata, quae tyrannorum temeritate abducta nusquam ultra domum rediit, praedae tantum patuit, utpote omnis bellici usus prorsus ignara: denique subito duabus gentibus transmarinis vehementer saevis, Scottorum a circio, Pictorum ab aquilone, multos stupet gemitque per annos.
Henceforth Britain in the part held of the Britons, being robbed of all men at arms, the whole of their provision for war, and the full flower of their lusty youth (which led away by the rashness of the tyrants never returned home again), lay only for a prey to the spoiler, forasmuch as the people was altogether ignorant of the handling of weapons of war: in short upon a sudden for many years together they groaned helplessly under the oppression of two most cruel and outlandish nations, the Scots from the west and the Redshanks from the north.
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