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History question about the Anglo Saxons' arrival to Britain and the people who were already there......?

I am just a little confusion, so any clarification about this would be great.

Lomax is correct, Odzook is confused.
The original inhabitants of the British isles, a people, like the Basques, the Ligurians and Sardinians, known as the proto-Europeans (the builders of Stonehenge, to give you an idea), were invaded by the Belgic Celts from over the Channel, about two hundred years before the Romans came. They settled in the more fertile parts of Britain, including Hibernia (today’s Ireland) and drove the original inhabitants North and West, but ended up by absorbing many of their customs and intermingling with the original population. The Romans, who were in Britain for nearly 500 years, brought their culture, but, as was their custom, never changed the “core” of the “Britanni”, who were considered fully fledged “Roman” citizens. When the Legions were withdrawn, the Romanized Britons continued to maintain a high level of “Roman civilization”, but they were hard pressed to defend themselves from their “wilder relations” from Caledonia (today’s Scotland) and Hibernia (today’s Ireland). It is not proven, but there is strong evidence that the first Germanic settlers (Angles and Saxons from Germania and Jutes from Jutland – Denmark) were called in as mercenaries (an old Roman habit) to keep these invaders out. They became so numerous as to constitute a dire threat for the old Britons, who did not have standing armies. During these troubled times some of the Celtic Britons settled in Roman Gaul (today’s France) and named it Brittany. The Celtic Hibernians invaded the West coast (todays’s Wales), and the North (today’s Scotland). The Caledonian Celts withdrew North, but also intermingled with the Hibernians. The next wave were the Danes (Danlagh in the East) and Norwegians (Norse Vikings) in the North. The final invasion was from the Normans in 1066 (Norse settlers on the Frankish coast across the channel). Over the centuries, furthermore, settlers and refugees have been welcomed from all over. The end result is a wonderful cocktail of proto-Europeans, Celtic Irish, Welsh and Scots, Latin Romans, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, known as Anglo Saxons and Norman-French. In brief Great Britons, with a great set of roots and an even more interesting DNA. Today there is a budding Genetic School of thought, with solid DNA evidence, that can help you sort out the various blood streams, but what remains is still the end product: a great cultural heritage.

Origins:
The Jutes from Jutland (East coast of Denmark), the Angles from “Angeland” (today’s Schleswig Holstein, Germany – right next to Jutland), the Saxons from Nieder Sachsen (Lower Saxony, Germany). Who says so? Ancient Roman authors like Tacitus (Germania), but also Pliny and Strabo, so we should be careful about precise areas, because, being nomadic tribes they could have wandered in from other areas.

Alfred: King if Wessex – i.e. West Saxons, so he could be termed a “Saxon”, was very active against the Danes, but was also noted for being called the first “King of England”, for his legal work (Book of Dooms) and religious fervour. Lots of data on him, look it up, very interesing.

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