Anglo-Saxon

====New people came in ships across the North Sea. Historians call them Anglo-Saxons. The new settlers were a mixture of people from north Germany, Denmark and northern Holland. Most were Saxons, Angles and Jutes. ====

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==== The Anglo-Saxons are a gathering of three different Germanic peoples, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. The Angles came from the South of Denmark, the Saxons came from Germany and Holland and the Jutes came from the north of Denmark. When the Roman Soldiers left England in AD410, the Anglo-Saxon people went across the North Sea to invade the country. Most of the people came to England to start the life they couldn’t live in their home country. The Anglo-Saxons were either farmers or sailors. The Anglo-Saxons did not want to live in the Roman towns, so they builded their own small villages. Everybody in the family helped on the farm with cutting down trees, looking after the animals and harvesting the fields.. The Anglo-Saxons spoke dialects of what we today call the old English. The Northumbrian and the Mercian dialect, were so close to each other that it was classed together as the Anglian dialects. The old English is often classed with the West Germanic language, because it sounds alike. ====

==== Each group of Anglo-Saxons had their own leader, who ruled a kingdom. About 200 years after the Anglo-Saxons came to England, the country where split up in five kingdoms. They were called Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, East Anglia and Kent. The five kingdoms fought against each other. Mercia was the strongest kingdom of them all. They fought with spear, axes and swords. When the Anglo-Saxons had fought they went home to look after their farm, because a normally fought only took a few hours. In the AD700’s the Vikings came to England. They attacked the kingdom East Anglia, and stole gold and other treasures from the churches. Nearly 150 years later the Vikings killed the King of East Anglia. Now the Anglo-Saxons stayed together and the king of Wessex fought the Vikings, and in the end, he made peace with them. The fought with the Vikings went on into the AD1000’s. The Vikings got their own kingdom in England called the Danelaw. The Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons lived now side by side very peacefully, and in the end all of the kingdoms had the same king. ====

**Written by Jonas Frandsen, Mads og Nadja**