Angles

Not to be confused with Angle.

The Angles were a Germanic people of unknown origin. Their name seems to be connected with Angeln, a modern district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The Angles, together with the Jutes, Saxons and Frisians, were among the Germanic tribes who sailed across the North Sea in the 5th century to invade Britain.^[1] The various tribes were later called "Anglo-Saxon".^[2]

References[change | change source]

↑ Peter Hunter Blair; Simon Keynes, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 10
↑ Mark Harrison, Anglo-Saxon Thegn AD 449-1066 (London: Osprey, 1993), p. 3

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