The origin of Anglo-Saxons

England in the late fifth century was occupied by three great barbarian kingdoms, Anglia, Saxony and Kent of Jute kingdom, each of which was founded by the chief English founding father.

The collapse of Roman rule in Britain was not so much a sudden catastrophe, as a long and drawn-out decline. The ‘Celtic’ Britons, who had been ‘civilized’ during centuries of Roman domination, retreated gradually to the highland areas of Wales, Cornwall and the south-west of Scotland.

Control of the fertile eastern lowlands was lost to warriors of Germanic origin who migrated from the Continent. 

These Germanic conquerors have become known to history as the ‘Anglo-Saxon’. The Anglo-Saxons were the people who transported themselves from the Cimbric peninsula, and its vicinity, in the fifth and sixth centuries, into England.

They were branches of the great Saxon confederation, which, from the Elbe, extended itself at last to the Rhine. They have come from ‘very powerful Germanic tribes’, the Saxons, Angles and Jutes.

The Angles, who came from Schleswig and the adjacent islands, occupied the Cimbric Peninsula of Denmark between the Jutes to their north, who gave Jutland its name, and the Saxons to their south, who came from Holstein. 

The Angles, Jutes and Saxons, all migrate to Britain in the fifth-century and by the tenth-century had merged to become the English People.

Saxons and Angles were united in fortune, and that shortly after their settlement, they were called Anglo-Saxons and their language Anglo-Saxon, to distinguish it from the same language on the continents, which was called Old Saxon.

The Anglo-Saxons were to dominate the lowland zone of Britain (basically England) until their final defeat at Hastings in 1066.
The origin of  Anglo-Saxons

History of Angles

English officially starts when the Germanic tribes and their language reach the British Isles, in 449.

Major tribes of Germanic peoples migrated to Britain after the withdrawal of Roman troops in 410 AD and during the next five decades of the early medieval period.

They were divided into three main stocks of allied tribes speaking dialect closely akin. One of the tribes, was Angles from modern Slesvig, a part of which Anglen, still preserve their name. The name of Angles comes from the district of Angeln.

Angles, an ancient German nation which, after various migrations, settled in Denmark and thence passed over in great numbers to England to which they gave their name. It is certain that these people were called angliz, a name recorded by Tacitus in the first century AD and introduced to Britain to give us the root of the term English.

The Angles are a thoughtful, intelligent race of men, less open and blunt than the Holsteiners, and more devoted to the useful than to aspirations for freedom.

The invasions from the mainland during the fifth century were continuously raging not only in the continent but in Britain as well. The Angles must have been sharing in the maritime expedition of the Saxons during that time.

The tribes were nomadic, sometimes being forced from their homeland by both Romans and other tribes, causing original terrot0oeies such as Angeln to disintegrate.  Angeln is the border land between the Danish and German Danish.
History of Angles