
(‘the angles’ – RED)
(‘the saxons’ – BLUE)
(circa ‘500 CE’)
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*latin* –> ‘anglii’
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*the angles were 1 of the main ‘germanic peoples’ who settled in ‘britain’ in the ‘post-roman period’*
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(they founded several of the kingdoms of ‘anglo-saxon england’, and their name is the root of the name england)
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(the name comes from the district of ‘angeln’, an area located on the ‘baltic shore’ of what is now ‘schleswig-holstein’)
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