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The collapse of Britain's Roman economy and administrative structures, as well as reducing their cultural prestige, seems to have left Britons living in a technologically similar society to their Anglo-Saxon neighbours, making it unlikely that Anglo-Saxons would need to borrow words for unfamiliar concepts. [44]
The historiography on the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain has tried to explain how there was a widespread change from Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon cultures in the area roughly corresponding to present-day England between the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and the eighth century, a time when there were scant historical records.
By the middle of the 8th century, other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of southern Britain were also affected by Mercian expansionism. The East Saxons seem to have lost control of London, Middlesex and Hertfordshire to Æthelbald, although the East Saxon homelands do not seem to have been affected, and the East Saxon dynasty continued into the ninth century.
By the middle of the 8th century, other kingdoms of southern Britain were also affected by Mercian expansionism. The East Saxons seem to have lost control of London, Middlesex and Hertfordshire to Æthelbald, although the East Saxon homelands do not seem to have been affected, and the East Saxon dynasty continued into the ninth century. [35]
The debate on the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain has tried to explain how there was a widespread change from Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon cultures in the area of England between the fall of Rome and the eighth century, a time when there were scant historical records.
Anglo-Saxon helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship burial, 625 AD (replica) In the wake of the breakdown of Roman rule in Britain from the middle of the fourth century, present day England was progressively settled by Germanic groups. Collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, these included Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians.
Anglo-Saxon migrationism is the school of thought that holds that the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain was driven by a large scale migration of Germanic speakers from present day north Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands into Roman Britain with the consequent extermination, expulsion and enslavement of the Romano-Britons.
Territories controlled by the Vikings (red), Anglo-Saxons (yellow) and Celts (green) in the 9th century. The earliest date given for a Viking raid of Britain is 789 when, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Portland was attacked. A more exact report dates from 8 June 793, when the cloister at Lindisfarne was pillaged by foreign seafarers ...