Anyone familiar with European history will have heard of the Saxons. Originally a Germanic tribe from the North Sea coast of the Netherlands, over the centuries they spread across Europe like wildfire. Due to their illiterate nature, tracing their journey through Europe isn’t always easy.
The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain was a transformative period in early medieval history, spanning roughly from the 5th to 7th centuries CE. Following the collapse of Roman rule in Britain, waves of Germanic tribes—primarily the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—migrated across the North Sea and established new kingdoms. This migration reshaped Britain’s culture, language, and political ...
Saxon a member of a people that inhabited parts of central and northern Germany from Roman times, many of whom conquered and settled in much of southern England in the 5th–6th centuries.