Introducing Gildas and his 'On the Downfall of Britain' from the 6th century: 'They first landed on the eastern side of the island, by the invitation of the unlucky king, and there fixed their sharp talons, apparently to work for the island, but alas! more truly against it ...
... Their mother-land, finding her first brood thus successful, sends forth a larger company of her wolfish offspring, which, sailing over, join themselves to their comrades'.
'They obtain provisions, which, for some time are plentifully bestowed, but they complain that their monthly supplies are not enough and they industriously aggravate each occasion of quarrel, saying that unless more liberality is shown them, they will break the agreement'.
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