Angles (tribe)

The Angles were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period.^[2] They founded several kingdoms of the Heptarchy in Anglo-Saxon England. Their name, which derives from the Angeln peninsula, is the root of the name England. According to Tacitus, writing around 100 AD, a people known as Angles (Anglii) lived east of the Lombards and Semnones, who lived near the River Elbe.^[3]

Archaeology[edit]

The province of Schleswig has proved rich in prehistoric antiquities that date apparently from the fourth and fifth centuries. A large cremation cemetery has been found at Borgstedt, between Rendsburg and Eckernförde, and it has yielded many urns and brooches closely resembling those found in pagan graves in England. Of still greater importance are the great deposits at Thorsberg moor (in Angeln) and Nydam, which contained large quantities of arms, ornaments, articles of clothing, agricultural implements, etc., and in Nydam, even ships. By the help of these discoveries, Angle culture in the age preceding the invasion of Britannia can be pieced together.^[9]

(731). Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum [Ecclesiastical History of the English People] (in Latin).

Bede

(1911). "Angli" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 18–19.

Chadwick, Hector Munro

Jane, Lionel Cecil, ed. (1910). . Translated by John Stevens.

Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation

. De origine et situ Germanorum [On the Origin and Situation of the Germans] (in Latin).

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

. Translated by Church, Alfred John; Brodribb, William Jackson. 1876.

Germania

(1917). Ptolemy's Maps of Northern Europe: A Reconstruction of the Prototypes. Copenhagen: Græbe for H. Hagerup for the Royal Danish Geographical Society.

Schütte, Gudmund

Sweet, Henry (1883). . Oxford: E. Pickard Hall & J. H. Stacy for N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society.

King Alfred's Orosius

Loyn, Henry Royston (1991). A Social and Economic History of England: Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest (2nd ed.). London: Longman Group. 978-0582072978.

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