The Anglo-Saxons were German tribes that invaded Britannia in the fifth century. They conquered it.
The Britannia to Great Britain
The Germans came at Britannia in the year 430. Their languages were dialects of Germanic the western; origin the old English.
They didn’t know the writing and they believed in a lot of Goddess.
Between the German, we distinguish some villages:
The Saxons:
They from the region between the rivers Elbe and Rin and they settled down southern part of the Thames. The founded the kingdom of Wessex, to the west, Essex, to the east and Sussex, to the south.
The Anglos:
They arrived from the region between the rivers Elbe and Jutlandia.
On the North of Essex, they founded the kingdom of Anglia Oriental. Between the rivers Humber and Firth or Forth, they settled down the kingdoms of Bernicia and Deria. Finally, in the central zone, to the east of Wales, they were based in the kingdom of Mercia. Later, the kingdom of Northurbria will arise.
The Jutos:
They were coming from Jutlandia, they settled down in Kent and the island or Wight, and they founded the Kingdom of Kent.
Finally, the Francs and the Frisios arrived at Britannia from territories of the Rin.
The fight between native British Celts and Germanic invaders were without truce and hard. All the roman villages were destroyed and only London conserved urban life. The British offered great resistance. From this time come the legends of the King Arthur, who narrates the adventures of He and its horsemen as opposed to the invasion.
Losing, British Celts dispersed in search of refuge.
Some go to the hills of the west, Gales. Others, to the Northwest and Southwest. Some groups crossed the sea and the arrived at the French Britain that took its name.
The Germanic invaders have appropriated themselves the island.
The Britannia Roman has disappeared.
In the year 597 the Pope Gregorio I, the Great sent to San Agustín to Kent with forty minjes Benedictine
2007-03-14
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