What is anglo-saxon? Is it an indian tribe of sort or?

Question

I know that it is from Wales and the old english....but was wondering if it has to do with any indian or native american tribe or tribes.

Answer 1

Nope, nothing to do with Native Americans-- rather, as you suspect, with native Brits.

Answer 2

Why would something from Wales have anything to do with tribes in the U.S.?

Wikipedia has this to say...note that whites WERE tribal people at one time too, like all people...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons
"Anglo-Saxon is a collective term usually used to describe the culturally and linguistically similar peoples living in the south and east of the island of Great Britain (broadly corresponding to modern England) from around the mid-5th century AD to the Norman conquest of 1066. They spoke Germanic dialects (that eventually coalesced as Old English) and are identified by Bede as the descendants of three powerful tribes, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes."

Answer 3

Anglo-saxon is an amagamation of the Angles and the Saxons, tow germanic tridbes that spearheaded the invasions of britain after the withdrawal of Roman forces. They were the main opponents of king Arthur and various other celtic British kingdoms.

Later they would themselves suffer the depredations of the Vikings who invaded in their turn. The Anglo-Saxons eventually became the English long after they had driven the natives into the wilds of scotland and Wales. The only similarity between saxon and native american history lies in the fact that they pretty much wiped out the native Celts in the areas that they over ran much as their descendents would later do to the indigenous people in america.

Answer 4

As the others have said, an Anglo-Saxon is a member of the Germanic tribes of the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes, the Frisians and the Franks who migrated to England. They were invited by the Celtic Britons to help fight the raids and invasions by the Picts from Schotland and the Scots from Ireland at the end of the Roman perod in the fifth century AD. They turned against their Briton employers and continued to invade England in massive numbers during the fifth and sixth century AD, displacing or/and absorbing the native Celts, and dominating England until Norman invasion.

Answer 5

Anglo - Saxon

One of several groups of Germanic invaders (including Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) that conquered much of Britain between the 5th and 7th centuries. Initially they established conquest kingdoms, commonly referred to as the Heptarchy ; these were united in the early 9th century under the overlordship of Wessex. The Norman invasion in 1066 brought Anglo - Saxon rule to an end.

The Jutes probably came from the Rhineland and not, as was formerly believed, from Jutland. The Angles and Saxons came from Schleswig - Holstein, and may have united before invading. The Angles settled largely in East Anglia, Mercia, and Northumbria ; the Saxons in Essex, Sussex, and Wessex ; and the Jutes in Kent and southern Hampshire.

There was probably considerable intermarriage with the Romanized Celts of ancient Britain, although the latter's language and civilization almost disappeared. The English - speaking peoples of Britain, the Commonwealth, and the USA are often referred to today as Anglo - Saxons, but the term is inaccurate, as the Welsh, Scots, and Irish are mainly of Celtic or Norse descent, and by the 1980s fewer than 15 % of US citizens were of British descent.

Answer 6

Anglo Saxons were a Germanic tribe of people from the mainland of Europe...hardly anything close to native american tribes. They're more closely related to the Vikings and their language was Old English which is a Germanic dialect clearly in the Indo-European langauge family. Native American languages are unique in the language families and are not associated with Indo-European languages at all.

Answer 7

Anglo - saxon has to do with Britins history. Then they came to America and inter married with the Native Americans and made AMERICA the land of the Mutts

History of Anglo-Saxon England
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

covers the history of early medieval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 5th century until the Conquest by the Normans in 1066. The 5th and 6th centuries are known archaeologically as Sub-Roman Britain, or in popular history as the "Dark Ages"; from the 6th century larger distinctive kingdoms are developing, still known to some as the Heptarchy; the arrival of the Vikings at the end of the 8th century brought many changes to Britain, and relations with the continent were important right up to the 'end' of Anglo-Saxon England, traditionally held to be the Norman Conquest.

Answer 8

The northern European 'tribes' were very similar to an American Indian tribe in their paleolithic cultures.

When the tribes of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, traveled from the continent and colonized the British Islands, they were essentially wearing skins and used stone tools and wore feathers and horns in their hats, just like Commanches and Apaches and other tribes.

So today's modern Englishman or German started out thousands of years ago as paleolithic tribesman just like the Eskimos or Sioux indians.

Answer 9

It simply refers to two "barbarian" groups of the Roman period that lived originally in Europe and moved into the British Isles. Seperately the two groups were the Angles and the Saxons. Over time they Romanizeed and were also conquered by the Vikings who eventually assimilated as well.

Answer 10

No, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes were peoples in Scandanavia who invaded Britain in the 6th Century. They conquered it, and Britain became Angle Land or England.