Why does history say the Angles and Saxons conquered the Celts/Briton and ended their culture in England?

Question

Is it not true that all of Europe including the Teutonic cultures were at one time Celtic (Halstaat, etc). Were the Angles and the Saxons "Romanized" by the time they conquered Britain and that is why they were no longer consider Celtic?

Answer 1

The Angle and Saxons, or as they called themselves the English, were Germans, there language only later developing into what we know as English (still a Germanic language though like Swedish is too).

Looking at artifacts that are Halstaat doesn't mean the people who used them spoke a Celtic language. As a parrallel the material culture of much of the Balkans during the Dark Ages is identical yet we know from historical record that there we're many different cultures and languages being spoken in the region. Ignoring text and recorded artifacts like CD's, DVD's and such a future archaeologist could very well assume that the Japanese and the English were the same culture and spoke the same language. This is the same situation we are in when we look at pre-historic artifacts.

Answer 2

The history of England is a story of many transformations through invasion. The invasion of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes pushed the Celtic peoples gradually out of the area now known as England. Not all were moved out of the area entirely. The people of Cornwall have the Cornish heritage. Wales has its Welsh Heritage. Scotland has it's Scots and Picts heritage as well as Celtic. The Romans also made quite a few changes in the land as well. The Roman Catholic Church worked hard to destroy the British churches to conformity. Later invasions by the Vikings and the Normans contributed more to the creation of England. Thus part of England's heritage was battered by the invaders. Don't forget the various Christian attacks on the past cultures. Much of that time is prehistoric in the written chronicles.

Answer 3

The Anglos and the Saxons came from Europe and conquered Britain and most of the Celts there fled to Scotland and assimilated with the Celtic peoples there. The Celts in Europe by then had assimilated by the other tribes and peoples that came out of Europe. The Celts originally came from India.

Answer 4

the full tribe of the Angles moved from the continent and into Britain. The Saxons might have stored some ties, atleast for a technology or so. it is probable greater desirable to envision the Anglo-Saxon invasion of england as a transition in sphere of effect, for the island, from being a Roman province, to a factor of northern europe.

Answer 5

I think that you have your spelling wrong, but I have found a site that may give you some insite.

Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race: Preface
It is, then, for an Anglo-Celtic, not an "Anglo-Saxon," people that this account of the early history, the religion, and the mythical and romantic ...
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mlcr/mlcr00.htm

Answer 6

this is the very thing that education is not the blame for but is trying to just get people to try harder to investigate what is out there to learn~first everything has to fit in to some tool of learning and it was probably used to do everything ~u know that it is impossible to achieve anything with two people who disagree, so u now have some information and u have learned more information, the way to continue is to c that it was a broad description of totally excepted theories but in reality there are those who accept only what they want~i agree that it is easy to say anything~just like the way the bible is reinterpreted every time there is a need to control someones thinking with their preconceived acute angles, there really are stone markers from the Romans on the far edges of England to proclaimed as land markers of ownership & all roads lead to rome as they say, that don't make them all bad?