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Britain several centuries before the Vikings began invading. And saying they invaded isn't really accurate. A lot of place names in England are Latin or Celtic in origin, and most of the People in England (ones whose grandparents were born in England) have Celtic DNA. Even in East Anglia, which is the most genetically diverse region of the British Isles only has around 32% that isn't Celtic. The natives were not displaced. So the Angles, Saxons and Jutes didn't arrive in large enough numbers to say that they invaded.
The Saxons are generally thought to have originated in the Saxony region of Germany, but the Angles and Jutes had their pre-British homelands in what is now Denmark. The modern language that most closely resembles the Saxon Language (Old English) is used in the East Friesland region of the Netherlands.
Britain several centuries before the Vikings began invading. And saying they invaded isn't really accurate. A lot of place names in England are Latin or Celtic in origin, and most of the People in England (ones whose grandparents were born in England) have Celtic DNA. Even in East Anglia, which is the most genetically diverse region of the British Isles only has around 32% that isn't Celtic. The natives were not displaced. So the Angles, Saxons and Jutes didn't arrive in large enough numbers to say that they invaded.
An invasion isn't defined by the total displacement of the native population.
The Britons interbred with their invaders. a mixture of Scandinavian (Viking), Roman dynasty, Celt (Iberians), German (germanic) migrant tribes of Jutes, Anglos and Saxons.
Romans of Italian origin conquered the British Isles and occupied it for 350+ yrs from 55 BC to 383 AD.
The Vikings first invaded the British Isles from the north in 793 AD.
William the Conqueror, a descendant of Viking rulers of Normandy, France, invaded from the south and occupied the British Isles in 1066 AD at the Battle of Hastings.
My husband and I are both descended from a line of people who lived in the parts of Europe along the Elba River where the Angles and the Saxons lived. We had a chuckle to realize we were technically “Anglo-Saxon”.
I won’t use that term to describe ourselves since I’ve learned it’s been co-opted by white supremacists. How funny.
I grew up in Texas, lived there over 40 years. To call oneself Anglo is NOT common.
In the USA, to call oneself Anglo Saxon is not common either. It's more of an 'academic' term, if you will. Those of us with English ancestry tend to refer to that part of the family as English. I've never heard of people in England referring to themselves as Anglo-Saxon either. They say English or British in my experience. Anglo Saxon can have other connotations.
You might hear Anglo more often in New Mexico. It seems to be a catch-all term for non-Indian and non-Hispano. Anglo-Saxon is pretty much unheard of as a descriptor.
You might hear Anglo more often in New Mexico. It seems to be a catch-all term for non-Indian and non-Hispano. Anglo-Saxon is pretty much unheard of as a descriptor.
Yeah, it basically means 'white'.
Sort of the way Amish say "the English" meaning non-Amish Americans.
The French are white. The Irish are white. The Germans, the Scots, the Spanish, the Italians, the Polish, the Lebanese...
Once again, referring to one's self as Anglo Saxon instead of as English or American or what-have-you in this country hearkens back to the Confederacy and to the neo-Confederates.
One might as well be referring to one's self as Aryan.
Once again, referring to one's self as Anglo Saxon instead of ...
Once again, in the context of genealogy it is an absolutely valid term.
And where are we discussing the Q?
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