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Why anglo-saxons and not saxon-angles?
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Why anglo-saxons and not saxon-angles?
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Why anglo-saxons and not saxon-angles?
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Why is it that the name for the native English is anglo-saxons and not saxon-angles?
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Re: Why anglo-saxons and not saxon-angles?
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Because they were Saxons resident in Anglia, as distinct from Nord-saxe, Nieder-saxe etc in Germania.
They eventually divided the south of England in to East Saxon (Essex), Middle Saxon (Middlesex), South Saxon (Sussex) and West Saxon (Wessex) territories. Wessex was large enough to split into several first-class cricket teams with different names but the others survive, along with later schisms of Sussex into the Southern Kingdom (Surrey) and Kent.
Danelaw, established by treaty with Alfred the Great (Winchester, Hampshire and England) gradually retreated as cricket moved northwards, with Durham finally achieving first class status in 1992, but the North Folk (Norfolk) and South Folk (Suffolk) never quite got the hang of it - though the honorific Duke of Norfolk's XI plays touring sides occasionally.
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Re: Why anglo-saxons and not saxon-angles?
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To add to Alan's comments:
... Anglia comes from the name of another Germanic tribe that had settled in England towards the end of the Roman era.
The name "England" comes from "Angle-land".
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons
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Re: Why anglo-saxons and not saxon-angles?
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The Anglian saxons versus the norman saxons or the Danish saxons.helps differentiate between them and the other immigrants like the anglo celts or the anglo scands.
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Re: Why anglo-saxons and not saxon-angles?
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And it goes back to a Roman legend of the emperor presented with two blue-eyed blond slaves who he thought were angels, until the donor said
"non angeli sed Anglii"
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