Who were the Anglo Saxons? Why did the Anglo Saxons talk like that?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The Anglo Saxons were ancient Britons, whose roots were in the Germanic (Saxon) area. It's hard to know exactly what their language was like, as we don't have any ancient Anglo Saxon writings to tell us what they spoke. But as the various tribes in what is now England, came under the domination of the AngloSaxons, those languages were incorporated into the language spoken by the Angle Saxons. Much (but not all) of the English language is drawn from that ancient tongue.

Answer 3

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The Anglo-Saxon great settlement took place around this time according firstly to Gildas, then Bede, then the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which largely repeated the same story.
The full picture of Anglo-Saxon settlement is complex and probably covers a longer timespan than Bede had envisaged. Basically, Roman Britain, cut off from the Empire, could not survive in a recognisable form and even central authority in Britain gave way to a series of local war lords who struggled, with some success, against the Saxons. One of these war lords may have been Arthur.

What were the causes of the great settlement?

Various theories have been put forward to account for the Anglo-Saxon migration. Certainly they had been raiding Britain for 200 years and were aware of rich pickings to be had and, no doubt, the geography of much of the Eastern sea-board. By the beginning of the 5th Century pressures from other tribes in Central Europe and beyond, although directed at the Roman Empire across the Rhine and the Danube, doubtless had an effect on the Anglo-Saxon homelands in North Germany and Denmark. As those pressures mounted, the Anglo-Saxons must have been aware of the withdrawal of the Roman Army and the collapse of the economy. The time was right for a takeover.

Other contributory factors may well have included devastating epidemics such as plagues which reduced the population in parts of Britain and a worsening of the climate in Northern Europe. This was so bad that in 407/8 the Rhine froze over allowing the Vandals to swarm into Gaul.

Some physical evidence of who they were

Not all of Britain was settled immediately by the Anglo-Saxons. It took more than 200 years for the borders of Saxon England to be pushed to the far west.

When we look at the artefacts from West Stow, we can see examples of the pottery with deep furrowed grooves on the shoulder like those from the Anglian homelands and from cemeteries in Norfolk; sharply angled pots with facets cut out, precisely like those from the Saxon regions of the Elbe Weser area in North West Germany. West Stow clearly does not represent straight migration of a single settlement but is part of a movement of peoples. From the outset this little village was a mixture, with various people picked up along the way.
It seems unlikely that all the Anglo-Saxon people on the continent had sea-going boats that could bring families, and possibly animals across the North Sea. Is it possible that some enterprising group ran a profitable business running settlers across from the Hook of Holland to Harwich?

Answer 4

The Anglo-Saxons spoke a Low German language from the north coast of Europe. They began migrating to England in the 5th century.

Answer 5

The Anglo Sakons were a group of people like indians that lived in Europe which most of their vocabulary we still use in the English vocaulary I just learned that in school.
The Anglo Saxons were the ones who fisrt introduced us to a few of the words of the eglish ovac I dont remember which ones they were but after them th Vikings ruled over them and so on ...

Answer 6

Germanic people. Talk like what?

Answer 7

Google is your friend: : o )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/anglosaxons/

http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Medieval_Studies/anglos.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MEDTsaxons.htm

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/vikings/angsaxe.html