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Article: The Continental homelands of the Anglo-Saxons.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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MUCH has been written about the Anglo-Saxons, their way of life, their laws, their language, poetry, methods of farming and so on but little, or nothing, is now written about their pre-British history. What, then, do we know about the Continental homelands of the Anglo-Saxons? The Encyclopaedia Britannica tells us that 'the Jutes, Angles and Saxons lived in Jutland, Schleswig, and Holstein, respectively, before settling in Britain. According to the Venerable Bede, the first historian of the English people, the first Jutes, Hengist and Horsa landed at Ebbsfleet in the Isle of Thanet in 449; and the Jutes later settled in Kent, southern Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. The ...