After the Flood, by Bill Cooper It would not be difficult to go
out and buy literally hundreds of books that deal with the
history of the Saxons in England. It is a fascinating and
popular subject, and the market abounds with books ranging from
the seriously academic to 'coffee-table' books filled with
pictures of Anglo-Saxon weaponry and other relics. Virtually all
the popular works on the subject begin with the middle of the
5th century AD when the Saxons began to migrate to this country
from their continental homes. Some books may even refer briefly
to those continental homes in order to demonstrate to the reader
that the Anglo-Saxons did not simply materialise but actually
came from somewhere real. But that is virtually the only mention
that is given to the pre-migration history of the Saxons. All
that came before, we are left to assume, is lost in the mists of
antiquity, and the pre-migration history of the Saxons is simply
left as a blank page. Now why should this be? Is it because the
Saxons themselves