The Saxons - Barbarian Ancestors of the English (History of England)

The Saxons (Latin: Saxones, German: Sachsen, Old English: Seaxan, Old Saxon: Sahson, Low German: Sassen, Dutch: Saksen) were a group of early Germanic peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of northern Germania, what is now Germany. In the late Roman Empire, the name was used to refer to Germanic coastal raiders, and also as a word something like the later "Viking". Their origins appear to be mainly somewhere in or near the above-mentioned German North Sea coast where they are found later, in Carolingian times. In Merovingian times, continental Saxons had also been associated with the activity and settlements on the coast of what later became Normandy. Their precise origins are uncertain, and they are sometimes described as fighting inland, coming into conflict with the Franks and Thuringians. There is possibly a single classical reference to a smaller homeland of an early Saxon tribe, but its interpretation is disputed. According to this proposal, the Saxons' earliest area of settlement is believed to have been Northern Albingia. This general area is close to the probable homeland of the Angles.
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In contrast, the British "Saxons", today referred to in English as Anglo-Saxons, became a single nation bringing together Germanic peoples (Frisian, Jutish, Anglish (whence "English")) with a small part of the vanquished Romanized Britons, establishing long-lasting post-Roman kingdoms equivalent to those formed by the Franks on the continent. Their earliest weapons and clothing south of the Thames were based on late Roman military fashions, but later immigrants north of the Thames showed a stronger North German influence. The term "Anglo-Saxon", combining the names of the Angles and the Saxons, came into use by the 8th century (for example Paul the Deacon) to distinguish the Germanic inhabitants of Britain from continental Saxons (referred to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Ealdseaxe, 'old Saxons'), but both the Saxons of Britain and those of Old Saxony (Northern Germany) continued to be referred to as 'Saxons' in an indiscriminate manner, especially in the languages of Britain and Ireland.
While the English Saxons were no longer raiders, the political history of the continental Saxons is unclear until the time of the conflict between their semi-legendary hero Widukind and the Frankish emperor Charlemagne. While the continental Saxons are no longer a distinctive ethnic group or country, their name lives on in the names of several regions and states of Germany, including Lower Saxony (which includes central parts of the original Saxon homeland known as Old Saxony), Saxony in Upper Saxony, as well as Saxony-Anhalt (which includes Old, Lower and Upper Saxon regions).
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[@thicclegendfeep4050]

My ancestors have lived in America for 400 years now, but we come from England, I'm proud of my Anglo Saxon ancestors as well as my Celtic ancestors. Greetings to all fellow Anglo-sphere peeps !

[@mikey8718]

Brother 💪

[@mrniusi11]

Anglo-Saxons built the modern world, ended legal slavery, and civilized the world's savages.

[@adamlanglois563]

sad bit is In Canada the education system is trying to tell children our ancestors who settled here are the devil and we ought to be ashamed. Screw that, be proud, don't bow pressure to ignore your own culture.

[@mikey8718]

@@adamlanglois563 you're my people brother💪

[@adamlanglois563]

@@mikey8718 funny how history repeats itself. Only this time it's not Christians telling us we are evil, while trying to bury our culture. It's a bunch of godless atheists. Not enough spine to have any kind of faith.

[@ARFFWorld]

Great channel. I used to play age of empires 3 and loved the saxons.

[@butterfacemcgillicutty]

Try Totao War: Atilla, I conquered most of the map with the Saxons

[@Angelcynn_2001]

The Saxons unified and created England. The English identity, language, culture, laws, literature, surnames and place-names, even the pound sterling (£), all have Anglo-Saxon roots.

[@wizard4203]

i really think the saxons deserve more than 5 minutes

[@ndie8075]

Hello I am a native Saxon from Germany Westphalia , Widdukind was a nobelman from my Area......

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

Modern Saxony is not where the Saxons came from, I believe it's one of your neighbors, they split the province in half and kept the name for one half and changed the name of the other

[@henningbartels6245]

@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 The precious title "Duke of Saxony" was inherited to other aristocratic families of other territories. This title was connected to being Prince elector, which was one of seven or nine members of the electoral college that elected the German emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Indeed, the emperor was elected and not automically passed to the son. In order to be elected as future emperor the candidate had to do some arrangements or compromises with the members of the electoral college. That's was the reason why the rulers of modern Saxony stuck to the title and the name despite having little to do with the original Saxon crowd or regions.

[@saxogrammatikus4195]

@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 He said he was from Westphalia which is Low Saxony.

[@BBeowulf]

@@saxogrammatikus4195yes but I think the guy is talking about the fact that Charlemagne pretty much Jen-Oh-Side all the Saxons that stayed behind a few centuries after the others went to England and then he repopulated the area with Franks or other people. They were one of the only kingdoms that would resist him and give him problems despite being very small in comparison (besides the whole thing with his brothers and mother) So when Charlemagne defeated them he killed a staggering amount of the population including women and children and forced the rest to disperse.

[@saxogrammatikus4195]

@@BBeowulf He did kill the nobelity but not really the whole population. You must know in that time to kill all the farmers is not a good idea if you will win land. He also set up some saxons like Widukind in the end to govern this lands with tribute paid to the franks. No they not went to england because they were allys of the franks in that time and christian. If so they went to the Danes or the Wends. But mostly there is not any evidence that a great migration in the region followed afte the saxon wars from the franks or other people. If so the only change in culture was in the nobelity.

[@wyverntheterrible]

Are you using a program for the voice on this? It's really good if so, what is it called?

[@VNation816]

Anglo-Saxon here

[@videochemist]

ANGLO SAXON!! ANGLO SAXON!! ANGLO SAXON!!

[@Dungeonposting]

This is one of the most comprehensive Saxon histories available on KZbin right now, it seems. Thank you so much for this. I can add; there is a 15th century manuscript which states that the founding Saxons came with Alexander the Great. The Saxons would go on to control the largest tribal duchy by area. My interest in the matter is that I bear a Saxon surname, from a man who looks Armenian. The Normans ultimately descended from the Danes, who dwelt just north of AngleSaxony. I wonder what enmity existed between them that would lead the Normans to overthrow the Anglo-Saxons of Angland so utterly? To this day, people with Norman surnames statistically enjoy greater status and shares of wealth, accompanied by lower suicide and addiction rates, in England. The Saxons, Angles, Frisians, and Danes fought heartily against the Frankish wave of conquest. The Danes even managed to preserve their autonomy. Beowulf the anglosaxon hero killed Grendel for a Danish lord. What a story

[@veronicajensen7690]

in the end it is all about power and money maybe not so much that they were enemies in that way, the Danish historian Saxo who wrote the history of the Danes between 1160-1200 AC wrote the Angles, Jutes, Teutons and Danes were brothers, dna test show Anglo-Saxon dna is very similar to modern day Danes and Dutch and indistinghuable to Danish Viking dna , just like Saxo wrote they were brothers

[@Dungeonposting]

@@veronicajensen7690 I believe it. I found some interesting things since then. The kimmerians from the black sea became the Cimbri, who migrated to the land of the Danes after 300bc. Josephus says the Cimbri are Israelites..! The white amazigh in south Africa are classified as an indigenous people. They were there long before the vandals. An ancient Greek historian who's name eludes me says the amazons had an empire that extended from the black sea into northern Africa. Now archeologists think the amazons were a real people, centered in modern Ukraine. That's where the kimmeroi lived. They were chased out by the Scythians. All of the depictions left of themselves. the Scythians look just like Nordic people; and viking art looks like a progression of the Scythian animal style. Pliny the elder wrote briefly on blonde haired blue eyed traders on the west coast of China. The dragon Fafnir in Volsung saga sounds just like the Chinese dragon Marco polo talks about. And the parallels between old Norse beliefs recorded in Eddas, and Hindu beliefs recorded in vedas, are alarming I just got my nose broken at a punk show by someone who looked like a Dane.. it doesn't matter that we are brothers 😭

[@robertwoodroffe123]

Ex Samson loard of Manahoe south of of Notingham From the south!? In the middle of the angles !?

[@shellydrelly]

Is there anywhere I can hear a spoken version of the original Anglican language? Before it became old English?

[@henningbartels6245]

old English here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqmYhHmGm9Kip7s kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXe7YqGYeZiXjJI

[@vtheruthless1v898]

London

[@LizardSteed]

At 0:18 in i swear thats a scene from Age of Empires.

[@TheMichaelK]

Ouk wän wy ni sou veal gelük hadden, sünt dår bet to düsse dage sassen up dat vastland. Grötings! Even though we did not have that much luck, there are until these days Saxons on the mainland. Greetings!

[@John-yr4uh]

I am Dutch. This looks like Dutch to me!

[@TheMichaelK]

@@John-yr4uh I believe in the medieval period both Middle Low Saxon and Middle Dutch were grouped under the umbrella of Middle Low German. They are quiet related and neighboring languages

[@John-yr4uh]

@@TheMichaelK Quite related it seems, indeed!

[@citizenfoffie7605]

This was a trip to read a hochdeutsch/English speaker, what low german dialect is that?

[@ottosaxo]

Dat is jo man ok jüst n' engelsch Video. Dor sünd se nich so akkurat met dat dösige Fastland ;)

[@dirkheunemann1387]

Angels give the Name for Enlish

[@VChong1991]

The hubris and arrogance of giving themselves that name.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

@@VChong1991 Angle just means fisher folk or from hooked peninsula. It's not a arrogant name. Just means fisherman.

[@roryfantasy4750]

@Noah Tyler Pritchet He is talking about the spelling mistake, where victor chong said angel not angle

[@stephanreichelt1960]

So there was essentially 2 family wars; Vikings vs England/WWII

[@VChong1991]

Ivarr shouldve razed England to the ground if you ask me.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

@@VChong1991 he did. Than he intermingled with the Anglo-Saxons. English people are likely as Danish as we are Celtic or Anglo-Saxon. Or Gallo-Roman (Norman French)

[@MrThebarron007]

@@noahtylerpritchett2682 no

[@vtheruthless1v898]

@@VChong1991 and your mum should've swallowed

[@kevwhufc8640]

Ivar got his ass kicked and was killed in Ireland by the Celts . He owned one of the largest white slave markets in western Europe .

[@PortmanRd]

I've always looked upon myself as an Angle rather than Saxon. My surname is old english/germanic and pre-dates the 7th century. the earliest spelling I can find is Vulnoth or Wulfnoth meaning wolf bold or wolf daring and very predominant in the East Anglia region.

[@PortmanRd]

Ironically my my mother remarried and my half brothers name is Cobbold. This is also old english/germanic and means battle famed.

[@VChong1991]

Christianity was a mistake. You know it. If only you stuck with Odin.

[@PortmanRd]

@@VChong1991 Always The All Father. Hael Odin! 🍺

[@SimpleMinded221]

@@VChong1991 You're a fool. Christianity made the Germanic peoples much stronger and politically a powerhouse. You know nothing.

[@SimpleMinded221]

@@PortmanRd To hell with odin

[@davidlloyd2225]

I'm saxon/celt and am fiercely proud and demand respect for my ancestry...woden lives ❤💯

[@NANDHAKUMAR-pl9qb]

Proud of barbarian ancestry!

[@hg1651]

If you live a good life, upstanding and honorable…you wouldn’t go around demanding.

[@HollcomeTook]

Not a chance.

[@davidlloyd2225]

Ooohhh...three are forces we can't even begin too comprehend and your judgement on me speaks volumes too me...mighty proud of my ancestors ❤...just like u clowns will kiss the ring of any indigenous tribe so stop denigrating mine ..simple really

[@fabolousnature3873]

Celt 🤔🤔

[@Bulgaria632]

In TV series "Vikings", Saxons don't look like barbarians! (Not hate)

[@timstarkes173]

That was 500 years after the first waves. They were Romanized by then.

[@veronicajensen7690]

@@timstarkes173 Barbarians was just what Rome called everybody north of the Roman Empire, and the Ancient Greek called everybody who weren't Greek from Egyptians, Persians and everyone else , it's not that they were "Barbaric"

[@kristianfagerheim1329]

They had no sail on their ships that erly

[@EstbXCIII]

Does anyone know why Saxons were named after the "seax"? Also, wxhy is it thought that the Old English language from the continent would have died if not for their migration to England?

[@thebristolianmackem2039]

Found out im a lombard were do they fit into Britain cant find any lamberts or lombard in my family but dna testing tells me i am and also clovis the 1st

[@GerlockArgentDawnUS]

robo voice makes it impossible to focus on the content.

[@LVQuinn83]

I'm Irish and I have no Saxon ancestry I'm a Norse-Gael..... The Norse-Gaels (Old Irish: Gall-Goídil; Irish: Gall-Ghaeil; Scottish Gaelic: Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture. They emerged in the Viking Age, when Vikings who settled in Ireland and in Scotland became Gaelicised and intermarried with Gaels. 🇮🇪🇧🇻

[@marypetrie930]

Norse are close relatives of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.

[@LVQuinn83]

@@marypetrie930 Yes I know that the Saxons came from northern Germany and southern Denmark I'm of Norwegian origin but yes I agree with you...

[@henningbartels6245]

Is Barbarian actually a rassist term?

[@tonybarde2572]

Saxony is where Dresden is

[@NeutroniousTemp]

So the british bombed the land of their ancestors?

[@tonybarde2572]

@@NeutroniousTemp No, the land of the invaders. The slayers of Arthur, ruler of the true Britons

[@hopetagulos]

I thought that the Saxons were originally a Scythian people who left the current region of Ukraine or Russia and settled in Germania and had a strong influence from the Germans in the new places. I thought the Angles were always Germanic; Saxons were Iranian (Scythians), however.

[@alisg1]

No, the saxons where formed by the 3 regional tribes Sturmari, Holtsati and Dithmarshi. Those started to conquer land south of river Elbe near nowadays Cuxhaven. So the origin of the Saxons is nowadays western part of Holstein north of Hamburg and north up to the river Eider.

[@aboba5995]

Stop this please, they're Germanic people from Germany.

[@henningbartels6245]

@@alisg1 this story is highly questionable. Do you have a source for it?

[@alisg1]

@@henningbartels6245 Widukind von Corvey wrote this in his Res gestae Saxonicae. This oldest source is corresponds to findings in the region.

[@henningbartels6245]

@@alisg1 findings in the region? What would that be? Referendum papers and ballut boxes in preparations to annex the area south of the Elbe?!? Apparently, the presumption the origin of the Saxons is Holstein seems outdated. Plus, the first mentionings of the Saxons were in the 2nd and 3rd century AD ... so some 800 years before Widukind of Corvey.

[@stephenbennett7235]

There is insufficient evidence to support claims that the Ancient Britons were Celtic. It's an anachronism.

[@garryrobson8058]

The English are a mix of Celts, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Scandinavians [Vikings].

[@veronicajensen7690]

Angles and Jutes =Danes=Scandinavians , there are no difference in dna between Anglo-Saxons and Danish Vikings, they cant tell the dna , Angles, Jutes, Danes and Teutons were all the same people but different tribes

[@grabeless1656]

O crap. I didn't know that "angles" was different from "Britons".. Or that the second even existed.. So basically Britton which are the original mainlanders of England got conquered and mixed up. It sucks..

[@PortmanRd]

How do you think we became England. Take the 'E' off England and replace with an 'A then put an' E' after the 'L.' Angle land. Or Land of the Angles.

[@grabeless1656]

@@PortmanRd exactly I though that. In my language the word for " Englishman" is Anglos, angloi (plural.) which obviously comes from angles. What seemed interesting to me though is not the word but that "angles" was a tribe that wasn't even in the island. Which makes England a country that came to be during the "common Era" when I assumed England to be an tribe of people that lived in the island. I guess I was never interested to read about England's history till now.

[@aboba5995]

Germanic colonialism is based XD

[@pAThomies]

Nothing makes me more proud to be English than the Anglo Saxons. To think the English were once German 😂🇩🇪 Thanks Attila for giving us an excuse to settle in Britain😂😂😂😂

[@DASW2001]

German and germanic are two different things

[@HansSchmidt727]

Originally Angles and Saxons were Germans ​@@DASW2001

[@pAThomies]

@@DASW2001 Whatever Christian.

[@pAThomies]

@@DASW2001And besides the Saxons ARE German so I strongly suggest you double check your sources before typing bullshit

[@martinschenk4286]

The Saxons are the ten tribes of Israel ( Isaac sons ) Danmark is the tribe Dan. Scandinavian are Naftali. Netherlands are Sebulon. Belgian is Bejamin. Anz. Anz.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Say each Semitic word in native Hebrew and then say same word in perspective Germanic associated language of tribes there's no common etymology. Your using false cognate similarities.

[@martinschenk4286]

@@noahtylerpritchett2682 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKbKhp17oJ2XjLssi=Bp6NxL9GdHzAHL04

[@martinschenk4286]

You talk about Hebrew but in Israel more languages were spoken Yiddish Aramaic Hebrew Greek So don't be so quick to judge. Investigate first.@@noahtylerpritchett2682

[@kevwhufc8640]

Saxons have nothing to do with any Israel tribes , nor do any northern European countries

[@isabellaflorentina7574]

10??

[@robsonhoms2798]

Saxon?, they are not Rome and White ... You know who is really a pure rhein peoples?, take a look closer .... Asean!!! ... 😂