After the Roman withdrawal, Yorkshire did not immediately fall to the Angles. The Pennine zone and the dales were held by British successor kingdoms for over a century. The kingdom of Elmet occupied what is now the Leeds area; Craven in the Yorkshire Dales had British rulers into the seventh century. These kingdoms appear in fragmentary sources — the Arthurian traditions, Welsh genealogies, and the poems of Taliesin mention rulers associated with the Pennine zone. The Anglian takeover was gradual and contested.
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