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In his "Church History" the Anglo-Saxon monk Baeda, or Bede, when speaking of the various German tribes which had made Britain into an Angle-land, or England, mentions the Hunes.

The last words of the passage quoted above from Baeda suggest this explanation in the case of the Britons.

Hardly less important, though in a different way, was the work of the monk Baeda, the father of English history.

The First English Prose.—The first writer of English prose was Baeda, or, as he is generally called, the Venerable Bede.

In treatises compiled as text-books for his scholars, Baeda threw together all that the world had then accumulated in astronomy and meteorology, in physics and music, in philosophy, grammar, rhetoric, arithmetic, medicine.