The barbarians themselves began to feel the pressure of famine in a country which they had ravaged; and being harassed by the dispersed Britons, who had not dared to resist them in a body, they retreated with their spoils into their own country [w].
[FN [t] Gildas.

Bede, lib.1.

Ann.Beverl.p.45.

[u] Gildas.
Bede, lib.1.cap.13.

Malmesbury, lib.1.cap.1.