1 : a member of the Germanic peoples conquering England in the fifth century a.d. and forming the ruling class until the Norman conquest — compare angle, jute, saxon. 2 a : englishman specifically : a person descended from the Anglo-Saxons. b : a white gentile of an English-speaking nation. 3 : old english sense 1.

Anglo-Saxon is a term traditionally used to describe the people who, from the 5th-century CE to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), inhabited and ruled territories that are today part of England and Wales. The Anglo-Saxons were descendants of Germanic migrants, Celtic inhabitants of Britain, and Viking and Danish invaders.

13-08-2020 · They were a mix of tribes from Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. The three biggest were the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. The land they settled in was 'Angle-land', or England. If we use...

1. a native or inhabitant of any of the kingdoms formed by the West Germanic peoples who invaded and occupied Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries a.d. 2. (formerly) Old English (def. 1). 3. plain and simple English; blunt, monosyllabic, or vulgar language.

Anglo-Saxon noun. one of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense. Anglo-Saxon adjective. of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

Les Anglo-Saxons sont un peuple d'origine germanique qui s'installe en Grande-Bretagne à partir du V e siècle. La période anglo-saxonne de l'histoire de l'Angleterre s'étend traditionnellement jusqu'à la conquête normande, en 1066.

The Saxons were a group of Germanic peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country near the North Sea coast of northern Germania, in what is now Germany. In the late Roman Empire, the name was used to refer to Germanic coastal raiders, and also as a word something like the later "Viking". Their origins appear to be mainly somewhere in or near the …

Le terme d’ Anglo-Saxons désigne a posteriori les peuples germaniques qui s'installent dans l' île de Bretagne à partir du début du Ve siècle, sur un territoire qui va être appelé Angleterre . L’ anglo-saxon est un terme un peu ancien pour leur langue, le vieil anglais. Dans un contexte moderne, le terme anglo-saxons désigne aussi :