Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading tribes in the south and east of Great Britain starting from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, lasting until the Norman conquest of 1066. The Benedictine monk, Bede, identified them as the descendants of three Germanic tribes:
The Angles and Saxons were closely related, and spoke different dialects of Ingweonic (North Sea German). They could probably understand each other, but probably made fun of each other's accents like the present-day Norwegians and Swedes. Neither could understand the Jutes, who moved south and mixed with Franks in Hannover before moving to Frisia. Chances are they had trouble understanding the Frisians too.
Saxons were/are from Saxony. Anglo-Saxons are in the Uk, a combination of the Saxons and the Angles.
Rome did not stop the Saxons. With the Angles, Jutes and other tribes, the Saxons conquered Roman Britain.
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It was continental Europeans. The Saxons, Jutes, and Angles were seen as one. That one was know as the "Saxons". That created a problem for the continental Europeans due to the fact that not all of the Saxons immigrated to England. There were also the German Saxons. There were two of them. Identical. So to distinguish them, the Europeans started to call the English by the name of the 2nd largest tribe, the "Angles". (The German Saxons were 100% Saxons, while the English were multi-tribal). The Scots, the Irish & the Welsh did not encounter the German Saxons. They only had to deal with the English. So no one to compare the English with, which is the reason they still call the English today as the "Saxons" in their own language.
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Anglo-Saxons
Angalo-Saxons.
Anglo-Saxons.
Angles, Jutes, Saxons.
The vikings, Angles and Saxons
Saxons were/are from Saxony. Anglo-Saxons are in the Uk, a combination of the Saxons and the Angles.
Among the tribes were Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Franks, Burgundians, Visigoths, Suevi, Ostrogoths, Lombards, and Vandals.
The Saxons. When the Saxons invaded England, the English lost, then the Saxons and the English came together to be the Anglo-Saxons.
The Angels and the Saxons are known as the Anglo-Saxons. Angles, not Angels! !
Jutes.
Angles, Saxons, Jutes