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Bookmark or Share- The Saxons - World History EncyclopediaThe Saxons were a Germanic people of the region north of the Elbe River stretching from Holstein (in modern-day Germany) to the North Sea. The Saxons who migrated to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries CE along with the Angles, Frisians, and Jutes came to be known as Anglo-Saxons to differentiate them from those on the continent.
- Anglo-Saxon | Definition, History, Language, Countries, Culture ...Anglo-Saxon, term used historically to describe any member of the Germanic peoples who, from the 5th century ce to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), inhabited and ruled territories that are today part of England and Wales.
- Saxons - WikipediaThe Saxons [1] were a group of Germanic [2] peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country ( Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of northern Germania, in what is now Germany. [3] In the late Roman Empire, the name was used to refer to Germanic coastal raiders, and in a similar sense to the later ...
- Saxon (band) - WikipediaSaxon are an English heavy metal band formed in Barnsley in 1975. As leaders of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM), they had eight UK Top 40 albums during the 1980s including four UK Top 10 albums and two Top 5 albums.
- Saxon | Definition, History, & Facts | BritannicaSaxon, member of a Germanic people who in ancient times lived in the area of modern Schleswig and along the Baltic coast. During the 5th century CE the Saxons spread rapidly through north Germany and along the coasts of Gaul and Britain. Learn more about Saxons in this article.
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