Woe to the lands, the minstrel sang, That hear the northern warriors' clang. You have also read in the English histories how at this time the Romanised Britons were perpetually invaded and plundered by the Picts and Scots, and then by the Saxons, until they were quite ruined. The Picts and Scots and the Saxons could not have done this in the time of Caractacus and Boadicea.