Author: Kathleen Herbert. The recorded history
of the English people did not start in 1066 as popularly believed
but one-thousand years earlier. The Roman historian Cornelius
Tacitus noted in Germania, published in the year 98 AD, that
the English (Latin Anglii), who lived in the southern part
of the Jutland peninsula, were members of an alliance of Goddess-worshippers.
The author has taken that as an appropriate opening to an
account of the earliest Englishwomen, the part they played
in the making of England, what they did in peace and war,
the impressions they left in Britain and on the continent,
how they were recorded in the chronicles, how they come alive
in heroic verse and riddles.
