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Rh been attributed to them. Stephens assigns them a very large share indeed, and his great work on the ‘Old Northern Runic Monuments’ attests his vast research. He says: ‘Anglic Britain was chiefly planted by Northmen in the second and following centuries, and was half replanted by them in the ninth and tenth.’ Whatever may have been the date of their earliest settlements, Northmen were certainly among both the earlier and later ancestors of the Old English. 5