Whith the tribes angels and saxons - Do the british and the germans have the same anchestors?

Question

What do they have in common?
Where do they differ?

Please help me I am from the continent.

I like you . you are my cousins

Answer 1

First it's ANGLOS and Saxons - angels are good beings with wings and the British are just not good enough to be descended from angels.
The British language and the British people are a mixed lot.
1st true Brits ( like me) were the Celts - who became the Welsh and Irish. Celts were sniveling little short pople who sang well and fought badly and were very passionate.
So the Scandanavian people who lived in what is now Norway, Sweden and Finland were feeling depressed . It was too cold to have a wee wee (urinate/go to toilet) without it freezing. So they got in their long boats ( which were only a few metres long so now they would be called short boats).
Some really angry ones,went down to Germany had a great time pillaging ( means stealing) and raping ( meant in those days having sex with some-one you were not related to) and over the centuries the Germans arose to be fairly angry, have blonde hair etc like the original Anglo Saxons.
Some went to what is now Britain. conquered the Celts; had wild passionate sex with the natives ( we Welsh/Irish are a wild passionate lot) and gave rise to new people who had weddings ( an old Anglo Saxon word)
(Please note - to come means to arrive but to rude Australians it also means to finish the sex act - so I've used the word in it's correct and its rude ways)
Now down in sunny Italy the ancient Romans, who spoke Latin, wanted to conquer the world ( or what they knew of the world - poor things didn't know about sunny Australia and fortunately, for native American Indians, had not discovered the U.S.A.) A famous man called Julius Caesar, went to England. It was too cold. He said "Veni, Vidi, Vici." which means "I came, I saw , I conquered." Then he went back to sunny Rome. He obviously came with one of those passionate Celt, and Anglo Saxon girls - so a new group were made.
But it wasn't finished. The French decided they didn't like French letters (an old slang name for condoms) and crossed the Channel. They now used their romantic ways, added lots of French words, like marriage ( so now the English can go to a wedding or a marriage) married lots of the Celtic/Anglo Saxon/ Roman girls so they could get the valuble English land, then went back to France. The new women/people were called English. They now got bored so went back to the original passionate Celts ( original Welsh/ Irish ) and came because they were from Rome, they also fornicated a Latin (ancient Roman) word WORD HISTORY: from Wikapedia dictionary
"The word fornication had a lowly beginning suitable to what has long been the low moral status of the act to which it refers. The Latin word fornix, from which fornicti, the ancestor of fornication, is derived, meant "a vault, an arch." The term also referred to a vaulted cellar or similar place where prostitutes plied their trade. This sense of fornix in Late Latin yielded the verb fornicr, "to commit fornication," from which is derived fornicti, "whoredom, fornication." first recorded in Middle English about 1303."

Because these new English had French blood they generally had a romantic (comes from French word 'romantique') good time also.
Now this mixed lot were British - a mixture of -
passionate Celts,
firey good fighting but cold - the Anglo Saxons;
the ancient Romans who gave their sytem of law, democracy plus some other great things
and French who were romantic etc.
The Germans had mostly come from Anglo Saxons so there is some relationship but very distant.
The British went off again and created Americans, Australians and others.
So it's not a simple answer and all relies on what Julius Caesar said "Veni" I came and came and came and the result a very mixed group who proudly call themselves, English/British etc.

Answer 2

Yes the do have similar ancestors, over hundreds of years, with travel, invasions, wars, etc, men and women have had relationships, including the current Royal family I believe that they can be traced back to German ancestors and they actual changed their surname.

Over the years many names IE German or British have been change for various reasons to become more German or British, look at the German Shepherd Dog, in the 2ND World War the British started to call the Alsatians.

All humans are the same, it is just religion, colour and ideas that are different.

Answer 3

Yes, both the Angles and Saxons have common ancestors and so do the Normans ( they of the conquest of England) as this race was originally known as the Northmen, a rampaging race of fighting men who settled in what we know as Normandy in France. The Angles and saxon spoke a common language which was German, both the Angles and Saxons invaded England and integrated with the natives who were A MIXTURE OF ROMAN AND DANISH AND NORSEMEN FROM PREVIOUS INVASION.THE BRITISH ARE THEREFORE A MIXED RACE PEOPLES. BACK IN THE DAYS PRIOR TO 1066 ( THE NORMAN INVASION) THE BRITISH PEOPLE HAD LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL SIMILARITIES WITH THE GERMANS,POST 1066 THINGS STARTED TO CHANGE WITH A MORE FRENCH/LATIN INFLUENCE BROUGHT TO BRITAIN BY THE NORMANS. HOWEVER, NOT ALL OF BRITAIN WAS INFLUENCED, THE SCOTS, WELSH AND CORNISH PEOPLES RETAINED THEIR CELTISH CULTURE.HOPE THIS IS OF SOME USE TO YOU

Answer 4

Kind of, but not really. The Normans (led by William the Conqueror) invaded England in 1066, so there was a huge influx of Norman (i.e. French) blood.

The biggest thing I know of that Brits and Germans have in common is that English is a Germanic language, but it has a lot of French influences.

They differ in many ways.

Answer 5

Yes, they do, but much further back than people used to think. DNA evidence now suggests that the so-called Celts, the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans all contributed much less to British stock than was once thought. Most of the indigenous British ancestry is pre-celtic and most closely connected to the Basques of Northern Spain.

Answer 6

German is a huge spectrum of cultures alongside with English American German Dutch Swedish Danish Norwegian between many others German could be devided numerous circumstances back and back back Anglo Saxon is a sort of Germanic subculture

Answer 7

Angles,Saxons,Jutes and Danes followed the withdrawal of the Roman legions,but there were people here before and after them;
Pictii,Celts,Phonecians(Cornwall),Bretons(Britons)Gauls(Asterix) etc

Answer 8

yes, they do have common ancestors.

but like all humans who are closely related, they hate each other the most.

doesn't make sense, but that's the way it is.

just like the chinese and japanese. closely related, hate each other.