The Continental homelands of the Anglo-Saxons.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: Burns, David | Copyright information

MUCH has been written about the Anglo-Saxons, their way of life, their laws, their language, poetry, methods of farming and so on but little, or nothing, is now written about their pre-British history. What, then, do we know about the Continental homelands of the Anglo-Saxons? The Encyclopaedia Britannica tells us that 'the Jutes, Angles and Saxons lived in Jutland, Schleswig, and Holstein, respectively, before settling in Britain. According to the Venerable Bede, the first histori...

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