Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxons In 410 A.D. the Roman legions were recalled to Rome to defend it against barbarian attacks, and Britain was left to fend for itself. Having no armies left the British people were left open to attack from the Picts which was by the sea down the east coast, for the Picts are described in one Late Roman source as a sea-going people - just like the Saxons. This account of the migrations from Germany, following the collapse of the Roman Empire, is taken from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, and is how the later Anglo-Saxons saw the first arrival of their people. Since then, until quite recently, it has remained the accepted view of what happened. The British 'tyrants' also feared a Roman invasion from Gaul to remove them, so some of the Saxons stationed in southern England may have been a guard against Roman military intervention - a far cry from the old view of the Britons missing the presence of the legions!. It is also known that the peoples who made up the 'Anglo-Saxons' were far more varied than just the three groups mentioned. The numbers of the invaders was certainly large, and they certainly did affect the nature anglo, saxon, britain, saxons, britons, roman, people, century, british, been, slaves, places, later, side, peoples, one, native, land, kingdoms, almost, ways, two, several, settlers, might, made, lived, just, grave, germanic, fact, england, came, began, anglo-saxon, adopted, 'anglo-saxons', wessex, war, upper, time, thought, source, society, slavery, remained, population, nature, man, left, language