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What language did Alfred the Great King of Wessex speak?

Anglo-Saxon. He wrote the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.


What dialect of German do they speak in Saxony?

Upper Saxon German


Why was Anglo saxon literature called so?

I'm not entirely sure of the exact nature of the question, but the best answer is probably to explain the origin of "Anglo Saxon." The Angles and the Saxons were two groups of people who settled in Britain centuries ago. Their people groups merged and came to be called the "Anglo-Saxons." The Angles spoke a language that was called "Angleish" and this is what became "English." Therefore, the literature written by the Anglo-Saxon people would have been called "Anglo Saxon Literature."


Where does the term Anglo Saxon originate?

It refers to the arrival of the Angles and the Saxons in England in the 5th or 6th century, after the departure of the Romans.


What is Anglo-saxon?

An Anglo-Saxon is a member of one of the Germanic peoples, the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, who settled in Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries. OR it could be a person of English or Anglo-Saxon ancestry.AnswerAnglo-Saxon is a collective term for all the Germanic peoples groups who came to inhabit the former Roman Province of Britannia after the legions withdrew from 410 A.D.of English decent.


What were the three Germanic tribes in Britain around 450 AD through 550 AD?

Among the tribes were Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Franks, Burgundians, Visigoths, Suevi, Ostrogoths, Lombards, and Vandals.


How do you speak Saxon?

the Anglo-Saxon language is Old English, a great example of it was the poem, The Wanderer: anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=wdr you may be able to learn some from that


Find poem if you speak in the tongue of men and angels but have not love?

If i speak in the tounges of men or of angles but have not love i am nothing


When did the Anglo Saxon arrive in Britain?

A date of roughly 450 AD is widely accepted as the time of the first major influx of Angles and Saxons. Of course they didn't all arrive at the same time. For example, around 400 AD there were enough Saxon settlements in southern Britain that the area was often called "The Saxon Shore".


What does the term Anglo Saxon refer to?

In the period between the Roman Empire and the Norman Conquest, the British Isles were invaded and settled by two tribes of people from northern Germany. These tribes were the Angles and the Saxons, and the term Anglo-Saxon refers to the language spoken by them upon moving into Britain.


Who conquered Britain between 400 and 700 CE the Celts or Anglo-Saxons?

celts


Why are the English known as Anglo-Saxons?

England was settled at various times by different tribes from Europe. The Angles and the Saxons were just two of them. Anglo-Saxon refers to their descendants.