Ængle / Engle | |
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![]() The spread of Angles (orange) and Saxons (blue) to the British Isles around 500 AD | |
Regions with significant populations | |
origin: southern Jutland: Schleswig (Angeln, Schwansen, Danish Wahld, North Frisia/North Frisian Islands) Holstein (Eiderstedt, Dithmarschen) destination: Heptarchy (England) | |
Languages | |
Old English | |
Religion | |
Originally Germanic and Anglo-Saxon paganism, later Christianity | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Normans, English, Lowland Scots,[1] Saxons, Frisii, Jutes |
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 probably 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]
Angles. A Germanic people who originated on the Baltic coastlands of Jutland.
Tacitus
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