Johanna Valge
ANGLES
• 5th century AD
• Historian Tacticus
and his book “Angalia”
• Homeland Angeln, as
it is called in Old
English.
• The Angles were
coming in large
numbers.
SAXONS
• Confederation of
Old Germanic tribes
• The Germanic
settlement of Britain
• The number of
settlers vary between
10, 000 and 200, 000
JUTES
• Iuti, Iutae
• One of the three most
powerful tribes
• Bede
• Jutland Peninsula
• Eotenas
Languages
• Old
English
• Middle
English
• West Saxon
• Kentish
Everyday Life
•
Agricultural people
• Freemen and slaves
• No shops
• Travelling Pedlars
• Town names ending
with “ham”
 Old English heroic epic poem
 known as the Nowell Codex
 A composition by an
anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet,
dated between the 8th and the 11th
century.
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/
 http://heritage-key.com/
 http://www.anglo-saxons.net/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/