The Angles were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period. They founded several kingdoms of the Heptarchy in Anglo-Saxon England. Their name, which probabl
The Saint Petersburg Bede, 8th century
The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany
Angles (tribe)
…summarized an account by a Norwegian seafarer Ohthere of Hålogaland who described a voyage from Norway to Hedeby which he said lay between the Wends, Saxons and Angles. On the two days sailing south before he reached Hedeby the lands on his right were Jutland ("Gotland"), Zealand ("Sillende"), and many…
The remains of a seax together with a reconstructed replica
The later stem duchy of Saxony (c. 1000 AD), which was based in the Saxons' traditional homeland bounded by the rivers Ems, Eider and Elbe
The Weser bones, 400–450 CE, were found on the lower Weser and are inscribed with images and Runes in a dialect probably ancestral to Old Saxon; individual bones show men attacking bulls and a Roman trading ship. The inscriptions may be curses.