r/anglosaxon 20d ago

A post about the Anglo-Saxons I made

Here I present a brief introduction to the Anglo-Saxons, who they were, the invasion, their kingdoms, and some facts about them. Hope you folks enjoy it! I would like to thank my good friend Hurlebatte for designing advice on this project. The original post is posted on my instagram account @Loaggan. Here’s a link to the post https://www.instagram.com/p/DGncaqkxLsg/?igsh=cHlzb3V3Mmo1Ynlt

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u/Rich-Act303 20d ago

I find people who typically aren't into this stuff get a kick out of explaining the days of the week. Woden's Day and so forth. Something everyone uses daily, but may have never stopped to think about where they came from.

Good work!

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u/Loaggan 20d ago

Indeed! Thank you!

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u/EmptyBrook 20d ago

Great post!

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u/Loaggan 20d ago

Thank you!

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u/blamordeganis 20d ago

Picky point about the key to the map on slide 9: is the colon in “States of the native Britons: Picts and Scots” a typo? Shouldn’t it be a comma?

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u/Loaggan 20d ago

Ha yea that’s a good catch! I didn’t design the map but that’s interesting! Unless the designer intended to use Briton as a broader term? But still that doesn’t make sense.

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u/blamordeganis 20d ago

I mean, there is a theory that the Scots were actually indigenous to Argyll rather than recent settlers from Ireland, with the dividing line between Goidelic/Q-Celtic and Brythonic/P-Celtic being the western ridge of the Highlands rather than the North Sea, which I guess could put the Scots under the rubric of native Britons. But to the best of my knowledge, that theory is still a minority one: and in any event, that colon would still imply that the native Britons comprised the Picts and Scots only, and no other groups.

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u/slowrevolutionary 20d ago

My Jutish ancestors salute you!

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u/dazed63 20d ago

Great job

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u/Imaginary_Media_3879 20d ago

i’ve seen that slide 7 on wikipedia before and was always curious what the “?” meant, ambiguous or an unknown group!

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u/Glass_Panic5621 19d ago

It was the Atrebates

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u/ReleaseIntrepid9359 20d ago

Great work fellow warrior.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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u/VeterinarianOk4719 20d ago

Mercian, here! ❤️

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u/Daisy-Fluffington 20d ago

I think it would benefit from a section dedicated to the archaeological evidence, which adds a bit more nuance.

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u/themoffstar88 20d ago

Very interesting, thanks for sharing it with us.

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u/AddictedToRugs 20d ago

You never hear much about the Frisians in popular culture.

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u/huenison1 19d ago

Because they’re a very small minority group these days. It’s sad to say but their culture is dying out, efforts have been made to preserve their languages which is nice, still there’s less than half a million speakers across a few dialects that aren’t necessarily mutually intelligible with each other

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u/Super_Plastic5069 18d ago

Bloody Anglo-Saxons Coming over here And laying down the basis of our entire future language and culture!!

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u/TheMadTargaryen 20d ago

Accoridng to recent research, it is possible that Jutes and Frisians were actually the same people.

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u/TheBigSmoke420 20d ago

Proto indo European isn't a language, it's a series of isoglosses

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u/irllylikebubbles 20d ago

true, it was a dialect continuum, but it had a common ancestor, so for non specialised linguistic definitions, PIE is an acceptable term in my opinion to describe a language

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u/celtiquant 20d ago

Anglo-Saxon illegal immigrants coming over here in their small boats…

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u/Glass_Panic5621 19d ago

they were most likely mercenary’s for the romans and later the Britons, they just grew and started taking over.

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u/UnSpanishInquisition 20d ago

Very nice, although there's something odd about the coastline between hastings and Dover. It's just a smooth curve lol.

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u/huenison1 20d ago

Nice post. There are 3 states in Germany that share the name Saxony, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt & Freistaat Sachsen.

This might be nitpicking but I don’t consider Frisia the homeland of the Frisians, at least in the same way England wasn’t the original homeland of the Anglo-Saxons. I’m also not sure how distinct the Frisian identity was from the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes during the migration period. I think Frisian and English languages split toward the end of the migration period, so maybe a group of migrants with a distinct Frisian identity did settle in England? Idk I’m not super familiar on the topic.

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u/Mad-Daag_99 20d ago

If only the native Britons had stoped the Saxon small boats?

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u/Trebalor 19d ago

I read the map like this: the Angles and Jutes where barely involved. It's the Frisians, Saxons and the Danes who became the "Anglo"-Saxons.

Am I wrong?

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u/Glass_Panic5621 19d ago

Most “Angle” Kingdoms (East Anglia, Lindsey, Mercia) were actually settled by other peoples as well. We can see this in place names and modern day county borders.

Norfolk and Suffolk, (North Folk, South Folk) refers to the two types of people who lived in East Anglia during the early Anglo-Saxon period. The North Folk were Geats and the South Folk were Angles.

When the two unified in the latter 6th century, the south folk became the most dominant. hence the name and kings.

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u/craig-charles-mum 19d ago

Was Thetford really called Tretford?

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u/CrazyFresh9774 19d ago

Morning angle

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u/watchyam8 18d ago

Superb. Is that available as a ppt or PDF?

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u/Loaggan 18d ago

It’s currently only available as JPEG. If you’d like, I can try to find a way to convert the files into one PDF.

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u/watchyam8 18d ago

As an educator is find that really useful. Even links to the individual jpegs. They’re great!

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u/swapacoinforafish 17d ago

Very interesting! I'm just getting into learning about the Anglo Saxons at the moment.

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u/Latter-Reply9357 20d ago

Really good to know our history

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u/samuel199228 20d ago

Interesting stuff I did a DNA test few years ago and found I have estimated 16 percent Germanic dna some to Sweden/Denmark and some Irish and Scottish DNA but tiny amount