England layout

• split into 5 earldoms
• Danelaw


  Anglo Saxon - Danish --trace their ancestors to Denmark
• Mercia, Kent and Wessex = wealthiest (rich farmland) and most populated earldoms
• earldoms were divided into shires - each shire had a few villages - each village had a thegn (local lord)
• few towns - maximum 10000 people
• 2 million population
• Cornwall = largely unpopulated
• Wales = not controlled by England
• Burgh - town (Anglo-Danish)
• North - vocab, customs = different to the AS south of England
• East Anglia - low land and marshy