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The Anglo-Saxons did not settle in an abandoned landscape on which they imposed new types of settlement and farming, as was once believed. By the late 4th century the English rural landscape was largely cleared and generally occupied by dispersed farms and hamlets, each surrounded by its own fields but often sharing other resources in common ...
In contrast, the settlers once called Saxons in England became part of a new Old English-speaking nation, now commonly referred to as the Anglo Saxons, or simply "the English". This brought together local Romano-British populations, Saxons, and other migrants from the same North Sea region, including Frisians , Jutes , and Angles .
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In modern times, the term "Anglo-Saxons" is used by scholars to refer collectively to the Old English speaking groups in Britain. As a compound term, it has the advantage of covering the various English-speaking groups on the one hand, and to avoid possible misunderstandings from using the terms "Saxons" or "Angles" (English), both of which terms could be used either as collectives referring ...
[8] [9] In about 442 the Anglo-Saxons mutinied, apparently because they had not been paid. [10] The Romano-British responded by appealing to the Roman commander of the Western empire, Magister militium Aetius , for help (a document known as the Groans of the Britons ), even though Honorius , the Western Roman Emperor, had written to the British ...
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Before the 7th century, there is a dearth of contemporary written material about the Anglo-Saxons' arrival. [ d ] Most material that does exist was written several hundred years after the events. The earlier dates for the beginnings of settlement, provided by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , has been contested by some findings in archaeology.
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