Another reason for coming may have been because their land often flooded and it was difficult to grow crops, so they were looking for new places to settle down and farm. They ruled in England for about years a hundred years longer than the Romans. However, unlike the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons never 'went home'; many people living in Britain today have Anglo Saxon ancestors.
The name England even comes from the Saxon word 'Angle-Land '. Who were the Anglo-Saxons? When did the Anglo-Saxons invade Britain? Anglo Saxon Timeline. How long did the Anglo-Saxons stay in England?
This large kingdom stretched over the Midlands. Northumbria , where the monk Bede c. The Sutton Hoo ship burial was found in East Anglia see below. Essex East Saxons. Here the famous Battle of Maldon was fought against the Vikings in The Anglo-Saxons had become a Christian people. This burial of an East Anglian king provides a rich case study from which we can draw inferences about kingship, religion, warfare, trade, craftsmanship. After , when the Vikings raided Lindisfarne Monastery, the history of the Anglo-Saxons becomes entangled with that of the Vikings.
In many ways they were similar: in language, religion and Northern European origins, yet they are not the same. The very fact that they invaded Britain at different times makes them two very distinct peoples in our history. Membership Contact us Support us About us. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets CSS if you are able to do so.
This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving. The Anglo-Saxons. The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD Hands on History: Ancient Britain.
Like the Saxons before them, the Viking onslaught first started with a few bloody raids. The first recorded raids include the sacking of the monasteries at Lindifarne, Jarrow, and Iona. Within nine years the Vikings had attacked and established their rule, or Danelaw , over the kingdoms of Northumbria and East Anglia, their former Anglo-Saxon kings having been put to the sword.
He added southeast Mercia as well as London and the Thames Valley to his territories and organised Anglo-Saxon resistance to the Viking onslaught. It was in at the Battle of Brunanburgh, that for the first time, the England of both Vikings and Saxons was united as a country, under the rule of Athelson, grandson of Alfred.
The good times ended with arrival on the throne of Aethelred the Unready. The Vikings had recognised some years earlier that whilst they enjoyed all of that looting and pillaging, just the threat of it was, in most instances, sufficient to extort money from their prey. This protection money, or Danegeld as it was called, was obviously much easier to obtain from a frightened weak king than from a strong one.
Aethelred must have been very frightened, as more Saxon coinage has to date been found in Scandinavia than has been found in England. The country was bled dry.
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