Angle, member of a Germanic people, which, together with the Jutes, Saxons, and probably the Frisians, invaded the island of Britain in the 5th century ce. The Angles gave their name to England , as well as to the word Englisc, used even by Saxon writers to denote their vernacular tongue.

The East Angles, Middle Angles, Mercians, Northumbrians, and other Anglian peoples were descended from the people of Angeln, probably in the eastern part of Schleswig-Holstein. The Jutes, who settled Kent, the Isle of Wight, and the area of the West Saxon mainland facing Wight, came from the peninsula of Jutland (in present-day Denmark).

The Angles originated in Schleswig, which is today's northern Germany and southern Denmark. They packed their knapsacks in the 5th century AD and invaded what became known as England, because of their very invasion. Result. According to Tacitus, the Angles worshiped the a god named Nerthus. And here is the migration map. MIGRATION OF THE ANGLES.

Ø ANGLES AND SAXONS (AD 410) Ø VIKINGS (AD 793) The Romans had been troubled by serious barbarian raids since around AD 360. Picts (northern Celts) from Scotland, Scots from Ireland (until AD1400 the word ‘Scot’ meant an Irishman) and Anglo-Saxons from northern Germany and Scandinavia, all came to plunder the accumulated wealth of Roman Britain. The Roman legions …

The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo-Saxons happened within Britain, and the identity was not merely imported.

To the south he took the Angle kingdom of Deira, that covered Yorkshire, and forged a new kingdom – Northumbria. So great was Oswui's power that both the Picts and the Gaels recognised his ...

The Angles gradually migrated west from what is now Poland about the first century AD until, by the fourth century they had settled in modern central Denmark, replacing the Germanic Cimbri and Teutones who had existed there in diminished numbers since before the first century BC. The region gradually gained the name of the new settlers, becoming Angeln, Angel, or Angulus.

The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a Germanic Indo-European language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Angelcynn ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic …