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Anglo-Saxons

 

a general term for the Germanic tribes—the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians—who conquered Celtic Britain in the 5th-6th centuries. During the 7th-10th centuries, as these tribes mixed in the conquered territory, the Anglo-Saxon nationality took shape, also absorbing Celtic elements. After the Norman conquest in 1066, the Anglo-Saxons, who had already mixed with the Danes and Norwegians, settled in northeastern and eastern Anglia and underwent a new mixing process with emigrants from France, thus originating the English nationality.

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In his epic narration of the history of the Anglo-Saxons, Bueno skips the so-called 'settlement period' (mid-5th to early 7th century) and starts with a section (11-17) on the rise of Mercia during the reigns of Penda (632-655) and AEthelbald (716-757).
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