The migration and settlement of the Germanic tribes in
very large numbers in href="http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/early/origins/rom_celt/romessay.html">sub-Roman
Britain (5th and 6th centuries A.D.) goes back to the middle of the 5th
century. These tribes were the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes and, may be, the Frisians.
Venerable Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History, identified the
English as the descendants of three Germanic tribes.
The
Angles might have come from Angeln in Germany in the form of mass
exodus. The name England must have originated from this tribe. The
Saxons came from Lower Saxony in Germany too. The Jutes migrated
from Jutland peninsula in Denmark.
They first Germanic
invasion in Britain started in the mid-5th century and continued for several decades.
The Jutes were the principal settlers in Kent,
the Isle of Wight and parts of coastal
Hampshire, while the Saxons predominated in
all other areas south of the river Thames as well as in Essex and
Middlesex, and the Angles settled in
Norfolk, Suffolk, the Midlands
and the north.
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