What is the difference between Anglo-Saxon and Vikings?

Question

What exactly is the difference between Anglo-Saxons and vikings? Are their beliefs, housing, food, travel, clothing and legal systems different?

Answer 1

Both the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons were Germanic peoples. Their customs weren't that dissimilar.

The term Anglo-Saxon is used to describe the people that lived in the southeast part of the Isle of Britain from the mid 5th century until the Norman Conquest in 1066. They are described as the descendants of three powerful tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.

The Vikings were the Scandinavian seafarers, warriors, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the 9th to the 11th century.

Answer 2

Post cave-man? Lol, every culture is 'post cave-man.' What a ridiculously stupid comment. And all Europeans are 'white.' Anglo-Saxon is simply one European group among dozens and dozens. Also, the Vikings died out less than 1000 years ago, not 1500+ years ago. You need to study history before you answer questions like this.

As has been noted, the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings were both Germanic peoples. They had the same overall cultural ties, the same concept of fealty to the chieftain (although the Anglo-Saxons developed more complex feudalistic ties), the same religious beliefs (both worshipped what we call Norse mythology, although many of the gods names varied slightly, such as the Viking Odin and the Anglo-Saxon Woden or Wotan), and both were eventually Christianized.

The Anglo-Saxons hailed from northern Germany, while the Vikings came from Norway and Sweden. The Anglo-Saxons first invaded England after Rome withdrew in the 5th century AD and then established a unified kingdom in the 9th century under Alfred the Great.

The Vikings first appeared in historical documents around 793 with an attack on Lindisfarne Abbey in England. They later sacked various southern European states like France, Italy, Sicily, the Byzantine Empire, and founded settlements in Russia, Iceland, and the Americas.

The Anglo-Saxons were conquered in 1066 by William the Conqueror, himself a descendant of the Viking warlord Rollo. 1066 is also considered to be the end of the Viking Age, as it is the last successful attack on England. Harold II defeated Harald Haldrada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, and the Norweigan Vikings retreated from England for good. Then Harold marched to Hastings, and two weeks later, was defeated by William.

Answer 3

Legal systems were similar between the two groups. Angles, Saxons and Jutes had all come from Denmark originally but were forced to emigrate into Germany when the areas they inhabited began to flood. Later on they emigrated into Britain. Vikings is actually a generic term referring to any one from one of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Iceland ect.) and specifically refers to someone who went raiding. At the time the raids began clothing, housing and beliefs as well as travel and food had changed as the Anglo-Saxons had absorbed and been absorbed into the culture of the Britons and had become Christians but the legal system was similar as the Anglo-Saxons still used the tribal system of loyalty which later developed into Feudalism. The various Viking raiders used the same system.

Answer 4

Anglo-Saxons were a group of Germanic people who emmigrated from Northern Germany into Britain, taking advantage of the vacuum left by the departure of the Roman Legions in the early fifth century. Their arrival was resisted by the Britons with little success (this is the conflict that spawned the Arthurian legend), and the AS had established their own kingdoms throughout what is now England by the sixth century.

The Vikings (or Norsemen) were also a germanic people, based in Scandinavia. In the eighth century, for reasons that still aren't fully understood, they left their homelands and began raiding, exploring, and trading throughout Europe. They established colonies in Iceland, Scotland, Ireland (they founded Dublin), and Normandy, and raided all the way down the west coast of Europe, as far as Sicily. Another group, mostly Swedish, established trading posts along the Volga and Neva Rivers, and eventually became the first princes of what would become Russia. In Britain, the Saxons managed to hold off the Vikings for sometime, but were so exhausted by the fight that they were unable to stop the invasion of the Normans, under William the Conquerer, in 1066.

Answer 5

The Vikings hailed from what are now the Scandinavian countries and sailed the seas between there and the British Isles...they raided, they plundered, they [erm] married...and the Angles and the Saxons descended from this mixture, becoming [eventually] an Anglo-Saxon tribe stretching from top to bottom of what became Britain [to include Scotland, England, etc.]. The blue eyes left behind in the gene pool are tribute to the Vikings...the dark-eyed and dark complected Hibernians [the so-called 'black Irish'] remained also true to their tribal DNA...with fair Saxons and mixed Angles in the puddle as well. Bad history, perhaps, but that's all you get tonite...I'm working out of memory, not Wikipedia or even a Trained Mental Situation here.

As to beliefs, housing, food, travel, etc., horned hats & really efficient ships were what the Vikings had...the woven reed boats and wattle-daub hutments were what were there from time immemorial before the Vikings landed... I believe the Vikings had many gods [like Freya, Thor, Loki] and the primitive tribes of GB may have worshipped Mum Nature and oak trees...

Oh yes, legal systems...probably a clenched fist applied to the nearest pie-hole was the first prosecuting attorney? Wait for the sturdy Christian fathers to straighten out some of it... and believe it or don't, King Cnut [Danish original] was a Very Early Convert thru his wife who started her Belief System a few weeks before. After that, it was no holds barred, faith-wise.

Answer 6

Anglo-Saxons came from North Germany, Vikings came from Scandinavia

Answer 7

The Vikings came from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden and Denmark). They created one of the world's first parliaments, the Alting in Iceland which still exists today. Since a lot of Norway in particular is not arable land for farming, they carried out raids into other lands to gather food and other spoils. Their travels took them from a sailing point into the northeast part of Newfoundland in Canada on or about 874 A.D., to a place now known as Lans Aux Meadows. For many centuries this area and the area south of there has been mischaracterized as the "Land of the Grapes" because the Viking word "Vinland" has been mispronounced for over one thousand years. The correct pronunciation would yield the English phrase "The Place of the Trees". The Vikings used long boats for those raids, the hull design for which is still used in many fishing fleets in Europe today. They did not wear those horned helmets, but used helmets made of leather. The Viking King mentioned by another answerer, Harold Hadrada, also invented a type of weapon which is used today in a much more upgraded model. While laying seige to another tribal leader during his attempt to unify Norway under his rule, Harold used birds with burning twigs on their feet to fly into his foe's castle and set the inside structures on fire. It was the first cruise missile!

Answer 8

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 (modern Great Britain/United Kingdom) from around the mid-5th century AD to the Norman conquest of 1066. They spoke Germanic dialects, and they are identified by Bede as the descendants of three powerful tribes, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.

Viking, also called Norseman or Northman, refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the 9th to the 11th century[1] and reached east to Russia and Constantinople, (referred to as Varangians by the Byzantine sources and by the Russian Primary Chronicle.)[2][3]

Leif Eriksson, known from Icelandic sagas as a descendant from a line of Norwegian Viking chieftains, who had established the first European settlement in Greenland in about 985, was most likely the first European discoverer of America in about 1000.[4] This initial area of discovery is known as L'Anse aux Meadows located in Newfoundland, Canada.

The name Viking at first (c. 800) in Scandinavia meant a man from the Vik, the bay that lies between Cape Lindesnes in Norway and the mouth of the Göta River in Sweden.[5] The first Oxford English Dictionary reference to Wiking dates from 1807.[6] The spelling viking in Modern English is first recorded in 1840. The word is not found in Middle English but only came into use in modern historical writings.[7] The following countries are their countries of origin:

I * Scandinavia
* Denmark
* Finland
* Norway
* Sweden
* Iceland

The Anglo-Saxons were primarily Christians due to being converted by the Romans after the conquest. Vikings were pagans and worshiped the Norse Gods Odin, Thor, Loki, and Freya to name a few. The styles of their homes were similar, as well as their clothing. as far as travel the Vikings traveled by ship on raiding parties in search of conquest. The Anglo-Saxons were primarily farmers or herdsmen. I imagine their food would have been both similar and yet different in light of the fact the Vikings lived both close to and on the sea. As far as government is concerned the Anglo-Saxons were ruled by the local lords and the Vikings by their tribal chiefs.

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Answer 9

they like hunting

Answer 10

Anglo-Saxons are basicly white people. People who have European descent and white skin. Vikings are post- caveman. They died out 1500+ years ago