Why did The Anglo Saxons Migrate to Britain? #anglosaxons #migration #history

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[onemoreminute]

"...Creating a power vacuum"

Understatement of the 5th century.

[TetsuShima]

To think all this sh*t happened just because Emperor Honorius said: "No way I am sending troops to that stupid insignificant island!"

[bryonslatten]

Welcome to the UK, where every 50 miles you encounter an entirely different regional accent.

[RezaXGWB]

I think we kinda skip the fact that the Saxons has been raiding the island since early 4th century... Hence the Saxon shore

[neatwheat]

End Anglo Saxon occupation! Free Britain!

[leonrambach]

"Have you ever heard the tail of Hengis and Horsa? It's not a story the Celts would tell you. It's an Anglo-Saxon legend."

[spudpud-T]

I want reparations for this colonisation.

[PVmedia]

I always wonder why England and that German province called Saxony were always so closed throught History.

[Saor_Alba]

The majority of people who live in Scotland Wales and Ireland are still recognisable through their DNA as genetically distinguishable from the general population of England.

The Anglo-Saxons had minimal effect on the Celtic regions of Britain as far as integration, especially Scotland and the South of Ireland.

I am originally from the Isle of Sky in Scotland, as were my ancestors, and when I had my DNA checked I was told I had DNA markers that were extremely rare to find in the general population in England. But were conversely quite common in most of Scotland, especially the west coast of, and in Northern Ireland.

[Abdullah_the_Palestinian]

Where was Rwanda when we needed it the most ?

[SirBedevereTheWise]

Changing the history of Britain forever...
😂
Changed the history of the world forever

[simonregan]

That the Saxons were invited isn't a modern theory - it was the classic explanation for how they arrived in Britain; that Vortigern hired them as mercenaries against the Picts; they demanded Kent to settle their families and eventually under Hengist and Horsa rebelled. How historical Hengist and Horsa are is open to doubt - Bede says they were Woden's great-great-grandchildren and they look suspiciously like the Horse Twins motif which is thousands of years older.

[JudgeEomer]

No prizes for guessing that Gildas was a Celt and Bede was an Anglo-Saxon.

[Bo_Nidle]

As an indigenous Briton of Celtic descent I want my reparations…..or we could put it all down to history and get on with living our lives.

[missaj]

My ancestry and DNA test results seem to indicate that a least on my Mother's side i may have desended from the Jutes. My mothers family came from Kent and i still have family living there now. Apparently Jutes settled in Kent and called themselves Kentings which is such a cute name. I can imagine my ancestors standing in a field in Kent saying, nice weather we're having and another saying wait around 5 mins lol.

[bobapbob]

There were also Germanic retired soldiers who already lived there.

[habibkicker]

The amount of learning we have in this Channel is awesome

[dantheman]

It was neither a hostile take over nor a peaceful invitation by the locals. It was a slow and long influx of immigrants coming into Briton, from the Low Countries, who were trying to avoid the hostilities and uncertainties brought about by the military collapse of the Western Roman Empire.

[Oak_II]

First they were two small, migrating tribes, a second later they rule the world

[MrBulky]

The lands settled by the Angles stretched much further north than shown on this map. They went right up to the Firth of Forth, encompassing southern Scotland: the area between the Forth and the Tees was the Kingdom of Bernicia (first named king, Ida on 547) ruled from Bamburgh close to the modern-day Scottish border, whilst the area between the Tees and the Humber was another Anglian kingdom, Deira (first known king, Aella in 559) ruled from York, though the two kingdoms came together later as Northumbria. Little of Bernicia, the cradle of civilisation in England in the late 7th and early 8th century (Bamburgh, Lindisfarne, Monkwearmouth, Jarrow, Cuthbert and Bede) is shown here. Cuthbert, a Bernician, was born in Melrose in modern Scotland. Lothian, the northern part of Bernicia, remained under English control until the late 10th/early 11th century.

The shaded area showing Roman occupation is also wide of the mark. It extended at least as far as Hadrian's Wall and the map does not even show it extending as far as one of the major centres, namely York (where two Roman emperors, Septimius Severus and Contantius Chloros actually died!).