ASPECTS OF BRITISH HISTORY
Notes
1. The Angles and the Saxons were the two most powerful of the Germanic
tribes that invaded Britain. All the Angles moved to Britain and settled the north (East
Anglia, Mercia and Northumbia), the Saxons occupied most of the south (but most of
the Saxons ‘stayed at home’, in Germany. See: Saxony, Lower Saxony and Saxony-
Anhalt in a map of Germany), and Kent was settled by the Jutes. The Anglo-Saxon
and Jutish settlers came from northern Germany and present-day Denmark (Jutland).
The word ‘Anglo-Saxon’ is used to describe all the newcomers (Angles англы,
Saxons саксы, саксонцы, Jutes юты, Frisians фризы), their language (Anglo-Saxon
= Old English) and a period in British history (about 450-1066).
2. In folklore and myth King Arthur is a great English hero, and he and his
Knights of the Round Table are regarded as the perfect example of medieval nobility
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