Angles
North Sea Germanic people, from the eponymous area
Not to be confused with Angle.
The Angles were a Germanic people of unknown origin. Their name seems to be connected with Angeln, a modern district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The Angles, together with the Jutes, Saxons and Frisians, were among the Germanic tribes who sailed across the North Sea in the 5th century to invade Britain.[1] The various tribes were later called "Anglo-Saxon".[2]
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- English and Welsh are races apart; BBC; 30 June, 2002.
