An Introduction to Anglo Saxon England | British History Documentary

[@ChewingGums]

This was really informative its the period of the monarchy I always find confusing but you've really helped me understand it a lot better thanks as always Philippa

[@RamonMarais-k2k]

I am peed off with not being an Anglo Saxon anymore. So I am giving a thumbs up to every artical I come across about them.

[@charlesmiv3842]

what do you mean "anymore"?

[@theshamanarchist5441]

@@charlesmiv3842 Now the myth of Angles and Saxons has been debunked as hagiography.

[@Saxondavid]

​@theshamanarchist5441 so your claiming the saxons and angles were and are not a people group in our own right ? So to push massmigration and the destruction of said people group they ate to be written out of history ?

[@hugues-v8i]

English is a simplified language. Try to learn to speak fluent German, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish or Norwegian and you will understand how Old English, which ultimately shares the same origin as these languages, has been completely wrung out, cleaned, rinsed, patched up, re-tinted to make it a totally new language. Many thanks to the Vikings, the Normans and the Angevins! The simplification goes on, what with the spelling used in the USA, the influx of African, Asian, Spanish words into US English and the steady flow of slang words entering the language and giving it a much more lively colour than the fossilized tongue of the Royals of England or of the BBC, which sounds so pretentious and ridiculous. Listen to old British films from the 50s and how exotic the language is. English is alive, it's moving, it's transforming itself all the time. In a thousand years, if humanity still exists, it will be as different from today's language as Donald Trump's language is from the Old English spoken before the Norman conquest.

[@KennethHall-tp4hw]

Lucid and authoritative - just the Introduction I was looking for. Liked and Subscribed. : )

[@BritishHistory]

Thank you, and welcome 😀

[@ShareTheJoyEveryday]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 thank you. This was a great watch.

[@EriAug78]

Love this! You made a confusing time very understandable

[@BritishHistory]

I’m so glad you found that. It is a complicated time, so that was my aim for this 😄

[@h0ckeyd]

Interesting how, even though it's on the map and the former name of the New Forest (Ntene - Jutish - Forest) people only mostly mention Kent or the Isle of Wight as lands settled by them but they actually held a fair bit of Southern Hampshire as well.

[@BritishHistory]

Love this, thank you.

[@helgaborek3290]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@BritishHistory]

You’re so welcome Helga. Thank you for watching and leaving a comment 😊

[@miahansson4006]

Very interesting, especially as I'm sitting with a recreation of a piece from this time on my lap right now. I'm working on a full-scale replica of The Bayeux Tapestry and I'll soon be completing the 48th metre. Should you fancy a chat about it, feel free to get in touch.

[@ellag1323]

A banger of a video

[@BritishHistory]

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it.

[@georgefspicka5483]

Thank you : )

[@rahjah6958]

3:35 the 1 thing the Scot’s always love to ignore lol. The entire reason their land was invaded was because of their raids in the first place

[@silverhooligan1256]

Roman soldiers weren’t mostly from Rome, they were from all over the Roman Empire and locals were eventually brought in. Locals prior wouldn’t be kitted out with swords, shields and other armor. The average person before or after wouldn’t have formal armor. They’d have axes, staffs, and other practical tools for defense.

[@BritishHistory]

Yes, because to be Roman meant being a citizen of the Roman Empire, not that you were born in Rome.

[@GarethPowell-n7n]

Great video, thanks. I’m mainly British/Celt with a sprinkling of Anglo-Norse according to my genes and family! Do you know who would be classed as modern Anglo-Saxons in England today? For example what surnames? Thanks.

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Celts are a religious fantasy people created by Welsh Norman Aristocracy and promoted by Puritan preachers. The idea was an 'ethno-nationalist' one based upon the 'myth' of a single pre Roman European language. This idea was successfully debunked many times over the centuries. No 'celts' ever lived in The British Isles. But every Germanic person living outside of An-Geal-Land(England) now claims to be one. Edward Llwyd (Lloyd) 1680.

[@Æthelstān-thé-glørîøüs-96]

Anglo Saxon English and proud just how god made me 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✝️❤️💪🏻⚔️

[@hugues-v8i]

This morning while shaving I heard on the radio that with global warming and rising sea levels, three-quarters of England would be under water before the end of the century. If I were English, I would go back to bed straight away.

[@Grandudchesstatianna]

Why is there no records of the time of the people who lived theirs graves or burials like they never lived in the villages or atleast to the public

[@roberttreborable]

It's Anglo Saxons that are criticised for later empire building and not Normans, probable as the kingdom is Anglo Saxon. although the Ruling Class are not Anglo Saxon.

[@hugues-v8i]

English is a simplified language. Try to learn to speak fluent German, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish or Norwegian and you will understand how Old English, which ultimately shares the same origin as these languages, has been completely wrung out, cleaned, rinsed, patched up, re-tinted to make it a totally new language. Many thanks to the Vikings, the Normans and the Angevins! The simplification goes on, what with the spelling used in the USA, the influx of African, Asian, Spanish words into US English and the steady flow of slang words entering the language and giving it a much more lively colour than the fossilized tongue of the Royals of England or of the BBC, which sounds so pretentious and ridiculous. Listen to old British films from the 50s and how exotic the language is. English is alive, it's moving, it's transforming itself all the time. In a thousand years, if humanity still exists, it will be as different from today's language as Donald Trump's language is from the Old English spoken before the Norman conquest.

[@jorgesantell7220]

Outstanding

[@robinsinpost]

"He then married one of his sisters." Whaaaaat?????? "to the Viking ruler of Yorvik." Phew........

[@BSdetected]

Damn… you jumped three centuries between Hengist and Horsa and great fred.

[@BritishHistory]

Thank you anonymous viewer

[@silkwormandcottontails803]

Ive never really understood much about this period so thank you for a great explanation . As usual nothing in our history is nice and simple , lots of names that take a while to sink in 😂

[@BritishHistory]

Lots! 😂

[@wildernesswordsmith]

I'm Anglo Saxon. Sir William of Garrington.

[@tinysaxon3826]

One thing you are wrong about ! SHEPPY is not off the coast of Essex, it is in KENT ?

[@Saxondavid]

Yet some in england that love mass migration cliam we are not a people in our own right, we are and we have lived in this land for millenia

[@scottscottsdale7868]

Very clearly done. I had no idea that the Romans prohibited Britons from owning weapons. It does kind of make our Second Amendment a bit more understandable. Lordy knows I am not a crazy gun nut though. But it makes it more clear why.

[@theshamanarchist5441]

An-Geal-Land

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

And you forgot to name Edgar as a succesor to Edward the confessor. First choice, not crowned.

[@BritishHistory]

This is an ‘Introduction to…’ not a comprehensive guide to pre Norman Conquest England. Edgar Aethling as a great-nephew to Edward the Confessor had a blood claim however, he had no political or military power and, crucially, this is at a time when blood claim was not the primary consideration.

[@ndie8075]

Saxons🇩🇪🇯🇪

[@Bjowolf2]

Saxons were not Germans 😉

[@ndie8075]

@@Bjowolf2 false.....the homeland of the germanic Saxons have been mainly in Westfalia , Lower Saxony, and Twente in the netherlands......Westfalia, Lower Saxony, Kent and Twente shares the Saxon Horse of their Flag.........the south of Germany has no germanic ancestry......

[@Bjowolf2]

@@ndie8075 Yes, I know - but these Germanic peoples were not Germans - Germany didn't exist yet in any recogniseable form, you see. 😉 - and they did not speak (Old) German either.

[@subutaykhan9387]

​@@Bjowolf2 germanic people were not germans, but germans are grand children of the Germanic people . German Empire was formed in 1871 after German confederation led by prussia against Napolion's French empire. French empire is another germanic empire. And their traces goes back to 4th century unlike the german empire.

[@Bjowolf2]

​@@subutaykhan9387No, the Germans are just the descendants of SOME of the many Gemanic speaking tribes that lived all over North-Western Europe. Check out the brilliant video from Langfocus called "Viking Influence on the English Language" to see how English is formed by several Germanic influences at its core - and of course the many borrowed words from Normannnic, French & Latin.

[@hugues-v8i]

English is a simplified language. Try to learn to speak fluent German, Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish or Norwegian and you will understand how Old English, which ultimately shares the same origin as these languages, has been completely wrung out, cleaned, rinsed, patched up, re-tinted to make it a totally new language. Many thanks to the Vikings, the Normans and the Angevins! The simplification goes on, what with the spelling used in the USA, the influx of African, Asian, Spanish words into US English and the steady flow of slang words entering the language and giving it a much more lively colour than the fossilized tongue of the Royals of England or of the BBC, which sounds so pretentious and ridiculous. Listen to old British films from the 50s and how exotic the language is. English is alive, it's moving, it's transforming itself all the time. In a thousand years, if humanity still exists, it will be as different from today's language as Donald Trump's language is from the Old English spoken before the Norman conquest.

[@markpirie1986]

❤😊🇬🇧

[@2011minos]

Angles and Saxons were Germans. They were not British. Normans were French. They were not British.

[@Chebab-Chebab]

The Normans were vikings by way of Normandy. France/Frankia was a separate entity.

[@Mersey_basileus]

They were Germanic not germans. Anglo Saxon is an English thing since they created England.

[@hugues-v8i]

@@Chebab-Chebab The Normans were French speaking Vikings because like modern Scandinavians they were gifted for languages, whereas the ordinary Saxon or Anglo sucked at French or Danish like your average modern Brit finds it impossible to pronounce anything but his own lingo.

[@midwestmenace9636]

The replacement of paganism might've been more cordial at the time (considering the regular and usual barbarity), but looking back to the open mindedness that paganism brought to society; is missed. People used to interpret their own religions through their own thoughts, no different than their own realities. Compared to what your religion deemed as true, versus how you should think amongst a civil group of people in society. Christianity lives on, just like murder and conquest did. For a religion claiming the enlightenment and redemption of all, it did lead to a whole lot of destruction and conquest. Just like their pagan adversaries.

[@midwestmenace9636]

ALSO, It might just be the human condition.

[@DeanUSAman]

🇬🇧

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

Very annoying that you forget to mention the Frisians. Old english and old frisian being the most equal languages and Frisians being the closest to England.

[@BritishHistory]

It was out of scope by some margin for an Introduction to Anglo Saxon England video.

[@anothergodlessheathen]

80 % of my own ancestry is of that "ethnic element", and these WERE " the Dark Ages" ... i.e., stupid Christian religiosity, illiteracy, ignorance, and gratuitous violence. But all of this pertained to most of Europe LOL.

[@tyv5887]

Lindisfarne 793 were Norwegian..

[@Bjowolf2]

She is wrong - they didn't come from Germany. It didn't exist yet 😉

[@shahanarif4295]

You are brainwash English 😂😂 English have Celtic ancestry 😂😂

[@Bjowolf2]

@@shahanarif4295 Only partially 😉 The Angles, Saxons, Frisians & Jutes came from present day NW Germany, SW Denmark / Jutland & Friesland, and they were related Germanic ( NB Not German! ) tribes, who spoke closely related and mutually intelligible accents of Germanic, which is why English is a Germanic language at its core with a lot of influence from Normanic, French & Latin on top of it of course, but only very borrowed words from Celtic languages - mostly just place names and local dialect words. No, I am not English 😂

[@shahanarif4295]

@@Bjowolf2 hahaha you brainwash dumb Lol english dna is mostly Celtic which has dark hair and darker skin colours compared to Germans and Scandinavian countries and yes english are linguistic Germanic but only 30 percent anglo Saxon and you brainwash dumb😂😂 Anglo and Saxon were German and danish tribe you are living in delusional world 😂😂😂🤣😂😂

[@AshHanks-nl5bn]

Less than 30 seconds in up pops an advert & its time for me to go. Bye.

[@BritishHistory]

Bye

[@Chebab-Chebab]

I didn't get any adverts.