Anglo-Saxons Never Existed, Claims Cambridge University
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I beg your fucking pardon!? The writing before the Ngl arrived was carving in trees. Sachsnglish was very distinct and had to be chosen by the people. The language has modified and changed for centuries. From any point of view there was a distinct culture that entered and began to develop in Albuun. What idiot in his right mind could even talk about something so easily traceable?
Heck, I started to learn Old English just to study more about Vikings because the better records directly from that time were kept by my namesake.
It’s interesting that we get “England” and “English” from the Angles, but yet we generally refer to the Saxons much more…
I did a bit of reading on this recently - it’s suggested this is because the Saxons were more into military leadership/conquest, whereas the Angles, who dominated a slightly different part of the “country”/island were more into developing the culture and stuff…
And also because apparently a larger proportion of Angles shuffled off to Britain, vis à vis the Saxons who left like half their people behind…
Interesting that the Jutes barely rate a mention, though, lol…
Ah, the Dark Ages…
I think it's because the Jutes settled and then didn't do a lot. It was all about looking at the historic Angles. They chose to be a new unified people as opposed to the others. The same was happening in the North, but it got lost to history when the Vikings stopped being a thing.