The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who became one of the most important cultural groups in Britain by the 5th century.

5 days ago · Anglo-Saxon, term used historically to describe any member of the Germanic peoples who, from the 5th century CE to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), inhabited and ruled territories that are now in England and Wales.

Jul 14, 2021 · Today, the term “Anglo-Saxon” is little used in mainstream American circles, perhaps as a chiding WASP label directed toward northeastern elites. But as news from earlier this year has shown, it...

Racialized Anglo-Saxonism contained both competing and intersecting doctrines, such as Victorian era Old Northernism and the Teutonic germ theory which it relied upon in appropriating Germanic (particularly Norse) cultural and racial origins for the Anglo-Saxon "race".

Jan 15, 2007 · Origin of the Anglo-Saxon race : a study of the settlement of England and the tribal origin of the Old English people by Shore, Thomas William, 1840-1905; Shore, Thomas William, 1861-; Shore, Louis Erle

It is to tribal organization and tribal customs that we must look for explanation of much that would otherwise be difficult to understand in the Anglo-Saxon settlement and the origin of the Old English race. Many of the ancient place-names can be traced to tribal origins.

Apr 20, 2021 · The Anglo-Saxon Clubs naturally denied any racist intent, as the historian Edwin Black writes in War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race.

Jun 27, 2007 · Origin of the Anglo-Saxon race; a study of the settlement of England and the tribal origin of the Old English people. Evidence reported by alyson-wieczorek for item originofanglosax00shoriala on June 27, 2007: no visible notice of copyright; stated date is 1906. Reviews cannot be added to this item.

In popular terms, the Anglo-Saxons were a race of natural leaders and adventurers, superior in both intellect and strength. They were the ones capable of “self-governance” whose expansion all over the earth was a matter of inevitability.

The settlers who eventually came to be known as the ancestors of the Old England human race were a delightful mix of numerous tribes who were given the tag Anglo Saxon. They were Teutonic, Wendish, Germanic, Norrena, and Frisian tribes.