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Excerpt from The Norfolk Broads At the time of the Teutonic overpowering of the Britons of Eastern England, the valleys of East Norfolk were, so far as we can ascertain, still in their estuarine state. On the highlands of Norwich, and near Reedham, where the New Cut now connects the Yare and Waveney, the Saxon kings of East Anglia built residences and held their courts. But the sea tides still ebbed and owed over the oozy ats which stretched many miles inland from the coast the Wild cries of the sea and shore birds were the only voices of this watery wilderness, which seemed destined never to become the dwelling place of man. True, here and there were little oases or islets - holms they were called by the anglo-saxons and on one of them, in what is now the Bure valley, a hermit named Suneman is said to have established himself during the ninth century. At Ellingham, too, between Beccles and Bungay, and on the larger island tracts of Lothingland and the Flegg district, there were doubtless little colonies of Saxons; but although the sandbank on which Yarmouth was afterwards built was slowly forming at the mouth of the great estuary, the sea still claimed the valleys as its own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."