I am a native Saxon from Northwest Germany...Westfalia....Westsaxon....we are very much connected with the english......old english spoken untill 1066 was the same language as the old Saxon in my area.....and we share the saxon horse with kent and lower saxony on our flag

These are my ancestors not a folk story I'm saxon/celt and we bend the knee to nothing...peace and love to my friends

Cute guy 😁. I never heard of the henga and horsa story but sounds like typical European folk stories. Which is fine. The movement of Germanic tribes however is well known. And not all saxons and angels emigrated. The northern state on Germany's north sea coast is still called 'Lower Saxony ' and there is also an area called 'Angelland' (just south of the danish border). The map in the background is quite accurate. The Anglo-Saxons as well as the Franks (I'm one) were the most romanised Germanic tribes since they came into contact with the Roman culture very early on. They were also the first to become Christian, in a western European variety. Most other Germanic tribes like the goths, vandals etc became Christians somewhat later and first took on a byzantine form of christianity. The British are extremely European in their admixture. Hardly any European nation has such a mix of Celtic and germanic (Angels, saxons, danish, norsemen) with influence of roman culture and even the most intense fusion of Germanic languages and a Latin one, namely french, which constitutes I think around a third of modern English (the rest still being based largely on Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian languages)

How have I been truffling out good history content on KZfaq for so long and not found your channel?!?! Just this ten minute video has already given me new avenues to explore in my own research that I didn't have before. I've obviously subscribed and now I'm off to the rest of your content. Thank you.

Awesome! I am writing a paper on the Viking attack of Lindisfarne and have fallen into a rabbit hole of knowledge. Thanks to your videos and others I have a deep desire to learn well beyond school requirements. Cheers!

I consider the dark ages to be better named proto medieval.

Great video! Happy I stumbled across your channel :)

Looking forward to the next installments of this topic! Also I love Max Adams' work as well, I'm going through his First Kingdom right now haha

Very interesting video mate, looking forward to the next one......cheers

There's one key element which British historians don't seem to be aware of when trying to establish the origins of the Anglo-Saxons. Bede talks about three groups of "invaders" - the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. Other contemporaneous writers also mention Frisian people as making up the population of the island of Britain of the time. However, having researched this, it's clear to me that all three tribes of invaders were in fact all derived from the FRISIAN people of the northern coast of continental Europe (similar to what your map shows). The Jutes were from SOUTHERN Jutland (now Germany) or NORTH FRISIA. The Saxons were from LOWER SAXONY, or EAST FRISIA. and the Angles came from modern day northern Holland. From three contiguous areas of coastal Europe - Magna Frisia. They all therefore spoke different dialects of OLD FRISIAN. The language of the Kingdom of Frisia which was in existence from circa 600 to circa 734. See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g62AarGQrcrRn58.html which demonstrates that the closest language to modern English is Frisian (West Frisian in the video). This is due to the fact that Old Frisian was almost certainly the ancestor language of OLD ENGLISH. Scottish people being more intelligible to West Frisian speakers than modern English speakers as SCOTS (the language) was also derived from Middle English, the direct descendent of Old English. They therefore retain the accent and some of the words (and probably grammar) of the ancestral language(s). It's also very highly interesting that if one utilises the High German Consonant Shift, (which was a process taking form at this time) on the name Eoppa (Hengist's son) one reaches the name "Eoffa". This is highly reminiscent of the name "Yffa", the ancestor of the Yffing dynasty of Bernicia and East Anglia. This is another highly significant phenomenon which British historians don't seem to be taking into account, but has clear ramifications on history.

Thanks for the info bruv, i'ma keep tuned!

Sounds like the Alglo word is then more related to a cultural development as opposed to a race...cause one has to consider the mixes with the Roman and allies and slaves which are from the entire Mediterranean 🤔 Genetic traces will speak to that...maybe we are all related one way or another

I've been binge watching your Anglo-Saxon videos. Truly my favourite topic. Thanks for the book recommendations. I'm looking forward to more videos on this topic!

Very interesting, you are a great teacher.

Hi Alex . . . Have enjoyed your Anglo-Saxon content for a considerable time - well done - very educational and enlightening . . . I briefly covered the 'Early Medieval Era' whilst at Durham Uni. and became interested in some work produced by Don Henson of Sheffield from 2008 onwards. He was reconfiguring the Early Anglian King Lists as set out in a number of extant Chronicles and was trying to re-order the accepted regnal dates in order to better fit with the chronology of historical events described in - say - the British chronicles or those from the Continent . . . Don came up with some very surprising possibilities, but would not be for the faint-hearted or 'Antiquarian,' as the conclusions drawn would precipitate a complete re-writing of history ! . . I wondered if you had mused at all about the possibility of there being dual or side-by-side kingships in Bernicia and Deira, rather than the conventionally accepted 'linear' / single-ruler king-list from King Ida through to Aethelfrith ? - this naturally alters the time-span of the Idingas significantly . . . 547 - 616 reduced to (say) 570 - 616 . . . but then remarkably, the Annales Cambriae, Taliesin, Historia Brittonum etc. etc. all now neatly fit chronologically into this new configuration. Keep up the good work Alex . . . You're a Star ! Anthony

Very good!

Cheers mate.Interesting people.

Frisians were already guarding Hadrians wall in the second and third century and famous as horsemen. Hnaudifridus is mentioned on a gravestone and Frisian Matrons like Friagabis were revered. The links for later (im)migrations were there before Angles and 'Saxons' can be recognised.

Horsa possibly has a similar origin as Marshal which comes from horse soldier.

Good video

Thanks. Hose means throusers( I hope I spell it right), and Hengst is a male horse in german.😮

Stupid youtube algorithm... Where have they been hiding you? :)

I never say "dark ages." The entire point of that phrase is just to undermine Catholic Christianity and it doesnt accurately describe society during that time. I use either post-antiquity or early middle ages.

It is always problematic to paint a modern map with colours to show where ancient people may have lived. The coastline of Germany and the Netherlands has dramatically changed within the last 1500 years. The German islands on the coast of Schleswig-Holstein were not isolated back then. Great floods and the rising North Sea washed soil away and the sea cut itself deeper into the land,

The Anglo-Saxons came from somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa; there's no doubt about it, because the British institutions now constantly tell us this.

Soooo, we really don’t know anything about Anglo-Saxon

I was told that my country WALES beat the SAXONS and pushed them back out of wales and did the same thing with the VIKINGS and the ENGLISH i am a true Welsh man had a blood test and I am 100% Welsh.

Be nice if you weren't blocking the map ;)

I heard some story that Saxons fled to Britain because they were systematically raided and killed by the Wends

I often picture Hengist and Horsa as real people myself but whatever.

The Anglo Saxons where not that large in number !

LOOKS LIKE ME COUSIN LANCE.

Au contraire Alex, it appears that Bede WAS seeking to create a type of foundational myth for a new Christian nation. You missed the gist of my point, entirely, my friend.

Je sais pourquoi ils sont plus énergique et qu'ils ne ressemblent pas aux autres européens. S'est le peuple qui a le plus de danites. En plus de sa ils se sont étalé en mode fragmentation à travers leur empire. Les français ont développé leur mageur partie de leur ancienne empire proche de leur pays en Afrique en suivant une logique de continuité comme nous les arabes. Mais eux non. Même au temps de Napoléon ils pensaient à agrandir leur frontière en lien avec l'Europe. Eux ils étaient déjà à prendre leur navires pour allez se faire l'inde. Ils ont opter pour la même technique que les peuples de la mer. Même si ils ont un pays qui nécessite de développé des navires. Sa n'empêche pas cette analyse. Les français sont plus dans l'idéologie des judeo romains chrétiens attaché à certaines tradition latine car en plus d'avoir les judeo gallo romain en nombre les francs étaient plus en contacte des romains et de l'Italie ou dans ce pays là il restait pas mal de trace dans les monastères plein de moines ont pu rester dans leur terre avec les conversions des envahisseurs. Les angles et les saxons étaient plus éloigné des frontières des romains

What you’re telling us is most people know that for the most part. His ever when you go back to 721 BC the Syrian Army came in and rounded up 10 of the Northern Tribes of Israel. Moved them, Up to 3 million people and moved them into Northern Syria and Armenia. It was call another name at that time. The group split into two groups. The Northern Group moved slowly up through the caucus to become scythians. The Southern group we the Kimerians and later. Called the celts. Scythians became the Germanic tribes. How ever some say that the Saxons were the tribes of Isaac. Drop the I and were Saac then Saxon. They all originated from Israel and Area. Found many sources. See Lost tribes of Israel by Joe Dubs

Etalon du cheval pour les 2 frangins. Et le 3eme sest le serpent ! Le cheval arabe a vu le serpent et il va l'écraser bientôt

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Alex, please give me one other person in the history of humanity whose name was “Prayer”. Hello, common sense?

Britain today is just a nuclear-armed hedge fund. The only comparison with the Anglo-Saxon era is that back then slavery was in force for a large part of the population of England and it took the Norman kings to eliminate it once and for all on this island. The others, the “free men" tilling the soil had no more rights than the cattle they bred. It seems that the British governments of recent decades and in particular that of the Anglo-Saxon Rishi Sunak would like to return to this ideal of society. The powerful, the lords and masters on one side, the poor, the vulnerable and the weak on the other. Nothing in between. In 2024, in the UK, 20% of children under 18 live in poverty. 25% of people aged over 65 live in a precarious situation. 😰

Nothing new. Stopped a the 'wiv'.