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The Vikings and the Saxons were two very different groups of people. The Saxons came from Northern Germany and the Vikings came from Scandanavia. Both groups of people invaded England, however this happened at different times; the Saxons in the late 5th/early 6th century and the Vikings in the late 9th century.

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The Saxons were one of the three Germanic tribes that came to the Britain, in the centuries after Roman departure. The other two were the Angles and the Jute's. The term Anglo-Saxon is an umbrella term to describe all three and their creation of the nation of England.

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Also, Saxons crossed the Channel from Fries-land in the Netherlands's with Frisians making up a significant proportion of their party. The English language itself has a core of Western Germanic which evolved from Frisian, but which has been highly modified by French ("s" as a plural replaced "en" and other forms except in a few words such as "Child/Children"; place names, law and other aspects are mainly French). Food often uses words from both origins: sheep (Germanic) mutton (French).

The two principle tribes of Germanic origin who invaded England and displaced the Celtic inhabitants were the Angles and the Saxons. The Angles settled in the North including lowland Scotland and the midlands. Their kingdoms were Northumbria IE. the land North of the Humber river, the southern boundary of Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland which occupied much of lowland Scotland. And in the midlands the Kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia which encompasses most of Lincolnshire and the counties bordering on Wales.

The Saxons on the other hand settled in the South and grabbed the best land possibly because they were the first to invade, though it is said by the historian Bede that they were invited by the Romanized British as mercenaries to help in keeping the Irish pirates and Scottish Pict's under control. The Saxon tribes occupied the modern counties of Wessex (West Saxons), Essex (East Saxons) and Sussex (South Saxons). We shall throw in Kent, one of the most pleasant and fertile of the English counties. The Romans would have this land in the South under much cultivation and habitation.

Britain was a melting pot of different tribes at this time fighting for possession of the land. The Anglo saxon tribes were a fierce warlike people who refused to become subject to Roman control. They seized this opportunity to occupy the former Roman colony and within a hundred years had driven the Celtic peoples to a thin strip of land down the west coast, including Cornwall, and the hill country of Wales of course. The Anglo-Saxons were blood-thirsty, killing any Celts who refused to move out so many Celtic Britons fled to North-West France to form Brittany, keeping their own language which is still spoken today. Prior to their arrival all of France spoke vulgar Latin.

There is a more recent view of the Saxon takeover of the British Isles. That they did not kill and drive out the Celt's but allowed the Celt's to accept the Saxon takeover and merge into one homogenious people. If the Celt's were willing to accept Saxon rule and language - acculturated completely into Saxon life, they were afforded all the rights and priviledges the English. Those unwilling to accept this scenario had to move out. Hence the strong Welsh Nation; Britany, and of course the Celts who moved North into Scotland and West into Ireland.

There are so few Celtic place names in England and almost no words that have entered the vocabulary that it was thought the take over was swift and bloody: it may not have been so!

We also comment that the English language received its' definitive form through the merger of the Viking tongue with English. Under Viking influence English ceased to have its' distinctive Germanic form, a declining language with word endings determining the plural form thus needing two words to determine an objects singular or plural form. They simplified everything by adding an S to the plural form. The vikings gave us many words to consumate the marriage of the two peoples. For instance the Saxon's did not have a word for husband - the Vikings did not have a word for wife ( wiffa) which is English. So the Vikings in the North and the Saxon's in the South were married, I think by shotgun; if they were available in those days.

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They were both descended from Germanic tribes.

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yes they where the same

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they both like women and food

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Anglo-Saxon. He wrote the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.


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