The Anglo-Saxons
The term Angli Saxones seems to have first been used in continental writing nearly a century before Alfred's time by Paul the Deacon, historian of the Lombards, probably to distinguish the English Saxons from the continental Saxons (Ealdseaxe, literally, "old Saxons").[citation needed]
Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading Germanic tribes in the south and east of Great Britain from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, to the Norman conquest of 1066.[1] The Benedictine monk, Bede, writing three centuries later, identified them as the descendants of three Germanic tribes:[2]
The Angles, who may have come from Angeln (in modern ...
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Old English was divided into four main dialects: West Saxon, Mercian, Northumbrian and Kentish.
The term Anglo-Saxon is from writings going back to the time of King Alfred the Great, who seems to have frequently used the title rex Anglorum Saxonum or rex Angul-Saxonum (king of the English Saxons).[5]
The Old English terms �nglisc and Angelcynn ("Angle-kin", gens Anglorum) when they are first attested had already lost their original sense of referring to the Angles to the exclusion of the Saxons, and in their earliest recorded sense refers to the nation of Germanic peoples who settled England and southern Scotland in and after the 5th century.[citation needed]
The indigenous British people, who wrote in both Latin and Welsh, referred to these invaders as Saxones or Saeson � the latter is still used today in the Welsh word for English people;[6] in the Scottish Gaelic word for English people, saesonach; and in the Irish word for English people, Sasanach.
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