Why did The Anglo Saxons Migrate to Britain?

Why did The Anglo Saxons Migrate to Britain?
It’s believed that this was the time when groups of Germanic peoples, referred to more exclusively from the 8th century on as Angles and Saxons, decided to enter the vacant landscape. There was still an indigenous population across England, namely the Britons with the neighboring Picts and Scots from Scotland and Ireland, but the withdrawal of the Romans left a prominent hole waiting to be filled. The story of exactly how this played out, however, is a bit fuzzy…
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[@Xristoforos41493]

Denmark tiny, has little room. Britain not as tiny, has some more room.

[@adrianlouw2499]

I heard the theory where after the Roman power vacuum the native British kings took to hiring Saxon mercenaries and soon the practice became so prevalent that Angles and Saxons were facing each other in the battlefield and realised they could simply unite and take the lands for themselves.

[@ndie8075]

love my cousins in England.....I am from westfalia in northwest Germany.....and have been many times in England....they are our closest relatives....🇩🇪🇯🇪❤

[@cornelkittell9926]

I believe that the Frisians also came, but in smaller numbers and did not totally abandon their continental homeland. Very hard to tell apart genetically. And Frisian is still the closest language to English.

[@ChrisJohannsen]

My family ancestry is from Angles but we never went to England. But ironically still ended up in Anglo colonies. (Australia, USA and Canada)

[@fandf888]

One big reason for inviting the Anglo-Saxons in was a great plague that hit the island in the seventh century. A lot of land became empty which also coincided with increasingly devastating attacks from Ireland. Hence a need for fighting men who could also farm the land. That’s why we see warriors arriving with their families.

[@megapangolin1093]

Very interesting and well-discussed examination of my ancestors, amazing how Sussex became sandwiched between two Jute areas and remained intact.

[@HamishGardiner-ru7xg]

One very important point that you are missing is that the romans used Germanic mercenaries in their army particularly in the UK. Hadrian’s wall was garrisoned almost exclusively by Germanic auxiliaries for hundreds of years and there were well established ‘Saxon’ communities on the east coast of the UK for generations during Roman rule, because the angles, Saxons and Jutes like the Scandinavians were excellent sailors and members of the group now regarded as ‘proto-Viking’s’ with similar ship building skills. The romans used them as a naval force to stave off raids by the Irish. It’s a simple extension of logic to reason that when the Romans departed from the UK the remaining military forces being principally Germanic, noticed a power vacuum and called for their cousins across the channel to join them.

[@lorenzbroll0101]

I lived in a part of northern England where villages only a few miles apart were named after the various settler 'tribes. So 'Bretton' is traceable to original indigenous pre-Roman peoples, 'Skelmanthorp' being Scandinavians and 'Denby Dale'. to Danes etc. There are many other examples.

[@meh2972]

Nobody ever stops to think why all the North Sea tribes were migrating to Britain except for the people that were actually nearest. Many Frisians did in fact also move across the pond. It is

[@Inucroft]

I feel "Kings and Generals" did a better summary of this period. And highlighted that it was both a combination of military conquest and semi-peaceful assimilation.

[@surfsands]

Many of the Celtic Britons left Britain with the coming of the Angles and Saxons and migrated to Brittany, now part of France, and Galicia in Spain making 2 new Celtic nations on the continent. Also the Slavs moving from Russia into modern day Poland were pushing the Germanic peoples further westward which may have played a part in the anglo saxon migrations according to some historians.

[@cucumber1448]

Amazing video as always!

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[@sbdiaries]

A very informative video thanks for sharing these suggestions and history with us ❤🙋❤️

[@andreleers9457]

The English language is based on an old German dialect. As the Dutch language does by the way. Ancient Angeln and Sachsen are situated in the northern part of Germany. If you visit Kappeln an der Schlei in Angeln, you might think you are in the UK. Sussex: Südsachsen. Essex: Eastsachsen. They migrated to fight as soldiers and because of living a poor life in deserted areas.

[@jacobwwarner]

Welsh History Podcast said something along the lines that the Roman's used to hire settled "barbarians" as federati and that the local romanized Britain's may have been inviting the anglo-saxons to do much the same after the withdrawal of the Roman legions.

[@leehallam9365]

I think it is foolish to dismiss Gildas and Bede, and much of the motivation for doing that has come from archaeologists who because they couldn't find evidence for battles, have dismissed the idea of conquest or mass migration in favour of the voluntary adoption of Anglo Saxan language and culture by celts from a small group of high status migrants. That never really stacked up with the evidence of language, religion and culture, and DNA has now shown that there was a mass migration. I don't think there was a mass conquest, but I do think there were armed invasions, a degree of local rulers using them as mercenaries who wouldn't go away followed by more peaceful migration into areas under germanic control. Bit by bit the country was taken over and within each area celts either were enslaved, intermarried or conformed to new rulers, though many moved ahead of the slow invasion, which is why Brittany exists. The video didn't try to hard to explain why they left their homelands, is their evidence of flooding at that time? What we do know for example is the Jutes were under pressure from Scandinavians as the Jutes are not the same people as the later Danes.