[marsh2]

I know the Saxons were Vikings. Who were the the Angles? I know they were pushed aside into the various Anglias, while the Saxons created the Danelaw in the eastern part. Were they just earlier Viking people?

By the way, if Icelandic historic culture exemplifies the Saxon, many of America's most cherished legal and government institutions, as well as our concept of freedom and tort may have originated with these people you speak of with such denegration.

[blam]

"By the way, if Icelandic historic culture exemplifies the Saxon, many of America's most cherished legal and government institutions, as well as our concept of freedom and tort may have originated with these people you speak of with such denegration.

Denegration? Where?

[muawiyah]

The Saxons and the Angles were NOT VIKINGS!

Their lifestyles and manner of dress probably remind us of Vikings, but most properly the Vikings lived in Scanderhoovia and beyond.

[PJ-Comix]

I know the Saxons were Vikings.

Nope. Saxons were Germans from Northwest Germany. Ever hear of Saxony? Vikings were Scandinavian seafaring warriors from, er, Scandinavia.

Who were the the Angles?

Another Germanic tribe that settled in Britain.

By the way, if Icelandic historic culture exemplifies the Saxon...

Sigh! It doesn't. Iceland was settled by Vikings and a few Irish slaves that they captured.

[Tribune7]

The Saxons weren't Vikings. They were Germans. The Angles and Jutes came from what is now Denmark but would still be better classified as Germanic rather than Norse.

The Danelaw was not extablished by the Saxons who invaded Briton with the Angles and Jutes in the 6th Century but by the Danes -- real Vikings -- who invaded in the 9th Century.

(A caveat on some of these dates. I'm doing this solely from memory.)

[LostTribe]

>I know the Saxons were Vikings. Who were the the Angles?

Virtually all the European peoples mentioned in this thread were just different tribes of Celts. The word Saxon comes from "Isaacs Sons", or "Saca Suni" and other permuatations.

The dominant majority of the Celts came from the region of the Caucasus Mountains (thus Caucasians) from 610 BC and later. That's when the 5 MILLION people from the Northern Kingdom of Israel (known as The Lost Tribes of Israel, having joined with the Medes and Persians to defeat their Assyrian captors, bailed out northward through the Caucasus and south around the Black Sea to begin their great trek westward to conquer and totally dominate Europe.

See BRIEF CELTIC HISTORY for much more on the European tribes.

[Cronos]

I know the Saxons were Vikings. Who were the the Angles?

cOmpletely confused. Saxons were not Vikings. vikings were not a people or a distinct Race. They were Germanic-Nordics very similar to the Danish and other Scandanavian tribes who formed the Vikings. Hence there wasn't so much trouble between the Saxons and ht Danes as between the Saxons and the Britons (Welsh) -- the Saxons and Danes spoke roughly similar languages and when the Danes became christians and stopped looting, they could all live happily together (well mostly ;-P)

Saxons, Angles, Frisians etc were all Germanic people from the Western parts of modern day Germany into Holland.

Icelandic culture is Scandanavian in origin and the Scandanavians were the last of the peoples in Europe to be civilised by Rome.