One more on Language

A few posts ago, I complained about people who post song lyrics...that they must mean a great deal to those that post them, but for some who read them, maybe not as much....well, I was mistaken at the time, song lyrics do mean a great deal, it's poetry.
Now I'm going to do something now...I'm posting a passage from a book!...
The book is called "London" by Edward Rutherford. He's a great author and storyteller who does incredible historical research. It's about the city of London, England from the time it was a small camp of hunter-gatherers, through Roman times, Elizabethan times, right up until modern times....anyway, I'm at the part where the English Language is taking shape....
After the Romans left around AD 400, for 200 hundred years the land was in turmoil...there was one leader, Artuirus, who held things together as people from Europe, namely Norway, Denmark, and Germany came over and settled there...this Arturius was the basis of the King Arthur legend.
Anyway, here's the passage from the book...two fisherman are sailing up the Thames river, and the older one is explaining the sights....
"That's Badric's Island, he said" in Anglo-Saxon, 'island' was pronounced like 'eye' so it came out 'Badric's Eye' which sounded like "Battersea"..."And over there, that's Chalk Island on the right" the sound Chelch Eye which made a sound roughly like 'Chelsea'...There were numerous settlements, a farm here, a settlement there. These too bore Saxon names like 'ham' for home, 'ton' for town...As they made their way upriver, he pointed out, "there's Fulla's-ham, and up there, there is Kensin's-ton!"
Well anyway, that's the passage...some of the main districts of London, one my favorite cities on earth...Battersea, Chelsea, Fullsham, and Kensington.
And so on goes the English language, of which we read, write, and speak.