The settlement of Great Britain by Germanic peoples from continental Europe led to the development of an Anglo-Saxon cultural identity and a shared Germanic language, Old English, whose closest known
An 1130 depiction of Angles, Saxons and Jutes crossing the sea to Britain equipped with war gear from the Miscellany on the Life of St Edmund
Folio 3v from the Saint Petersburg Bede (National Library of Russia, lat. Q. v. I. 18), a near-contemporary version of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
An Anglo-Frisian funerary urn excavated from the Snape ship burial in East Anglia. Item is located in Aldeburgh Moot Hall Museum
2008 05 17 Sutton Hoo crop
Hengist and Horsa
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Hengist and Horsa are legendary Germanic brothers who, according to later English legends, led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, the progenitor groups of modern English people, in their invasion of Great
The brothers in Edward Parrott's Pageant of British History (1909)
Hengist from John Speed's 1611 "Saxon Heptarchy"
Hengist and Horsa arriving in Britain, as depicted by Richard Rowlands (1605)
Vortigern and Rowena, by William Hamilton (1793)