Mexborough is located at the north eastern end of a dyke known as the Roman Ridge that is thought to have been constructed either by the Brigantian tribes in the 1st century AD, perhaps as a defence against the Roman invasion of Britain, or after the 5th century to defend the British kingdom of Elmet from the Angles.

Bede's account of the early migrations of the Angles and Saxons to England omits any mention of a movement of those peoples across the channel from Britain to Brittany described by Procopius, who was writing in the sixth century.

The English language evolved in England, from a set of West Germanic dialects spoken by the Angles and Saxons, who arrived from continental Europe in the 5th century.

The Jutes, along with some Angles, Saxons and Frisians, sailed across the North Sea to raid and eventually invade Great Britain from the late 4th century onwards, either displacing, absorbing, or destroying the native Celtic peoples there.

The Historia Brittonum recounts how in the sixth century, Urien, prince of Rheged, besieged the Angles led by Theodoric at the island for three days and three nights.

By the 5th century the Angles, after whom East Anglia and England itself are named, had established control of the region and later became the " north folk " and the " south folk ", hence, " Norfolk " and " Suffolk ".

Suffolk, and several adjacent areas, became the kingdom of East Anglia, which was settled by the Angles in the 5th century AD, later merging with Mercia and then Wessex.

Archaeological surveys show that Angles settled the lands north of the River Thames by the 6th century.

The Kingdom of the East Angles, formed about the year 520 by the merging of the North and the South Folk ( Angles who had settled in the former lands of the Iceni during the previous century ), was one of the seven Anglo-Saxon heptarchy kingdoms ( as defined in the 12th century writings of Henry of Huntingdon ).

In the 6th century, Bryneich was invaded by the Angles and became known as Bernicia.

Although Kent was the first part of the British mainland to be conquered and settled by the invading Angles, Saxons and Jutes from the middle of the 5th century AD onwards, after the departure of the Romans, it was not until the late 7th century that the spelling Folcanstan appears.

The monk Bede, who wrote in the 8th century, considered the Mercians to be descended from the Angles, one of the invading groups ; the Saxons and Jutes settled in the south of Britain, while the Angles settled in the north.

The area appears to have remained largely British in the first century or so after Britain left the Roman Empire, but pagan burials and place names in its north-eastern sector suggest an inflow of Angles along the Warwickshire Avon and perhaps by other routes ; they may have exacted tribute from British rulers.

The 20th century historian Frank Stenton wrote that " the continuous history of Northumbria, and indeed of England, begins with the reign of Æthelfrith ", and that " he was the real founder of the historic Northumbrian kingdom, and he was remembered as the first great leader who had arisen among the northern Angles.

Wakefield was probably settled by the Angles in the 5th or 6th century and after 876 AD the area was controlled by the Vikings who founded twelve hamlets or thorpes around Wakefield.

Pudsey occurs in the 1086 Domesday Book as " Podechesaie " and " Podechesai ", but in the early 6th century Pudsey and the neighbourhood appear to have been the centre of the considerable Kingdom of Elmet, which retained its independence for more than 200 years after other more petty kingdoms had been subdued by the Angles.

The village was an important place historically and has been a site of conflict and cultural exchange since the Angles settled the area in the 8th century.

The legend surrounding Scotland's association with the Saint Andrew's Cross was related by Walter Bower and George Buchanan, who claimed that the flag originated in a 9th century battle, where Óengus II led a combined force of Picts and Scots to victory over the Angles, led by Æthelstan.

After many Angles emigrated to the British Islands in the 5th century, the land of the Angles came in closer contact with the Danish islands — plausibly by partly immigration / occupation by the Danes.

The Angles are the subject of a legend about Pope Gregory I, who happened to see a group of Angle children from Deira for sale as slaves in the Roman market.

The culture of the Jutes of Kent shows more signs of Roman, Frankish, and Christian influence than that of the Angles or Saxons.

Saxons, along with Angles, Frisians and Jutes, invaded or migrated to the island of Great Britain ( Britannia ) around the time of the collapse of Roman authority in the west.

Some of the Angles of Bernicia () may have been employed as mercenaries along Hadrian's Wall during the late Roman period.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Britain became increasingly vulnerable to attack by Germanic invaders, namely Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisii.

Taking into account both archeological findings and Roman sources, however, one could conclude that the Jutes inhabited both the Kongeå region and the more northern part of the peninsula, while the Angles lived approximately where the towns Haithabu and Schleswig later would emerge ( originally centered in the southeast of Schleswig in Angeln ), the Saxons ( earlier known apparently as the Reudingi ) originally centered in Western Holstein ( known historically as " Northalbingia ") and Slavic Wagrians, part of the Obodrites ( Abodrites ) in Eastern Holstein.

The fall of Roman Britain at the beginning of the fifth century, according to Bede, allowed an influx of invaders from northern Germany including the Angles and Saxons.

The languages of Germanic peoples gave rise to the English language ( the Angles, Saxons, Frisii, Jutes and possibly the Franks, who traded, fought with and lived alongside the Latin-speaking peoples of the Roman Empire in the centuries-long process of the Germanic peoples ' expansion into Western Europe during the Migration Period ).

Most Angles, Saxons and Jutes arrived in Britain in the 6th Century as Germanic pagans, independent of Roman control.

By the 5th century AD the Roman forces withdrew from Britain after they were overwhelmed by the invading forces of the Angles and the Saxons from the east.

After the end of Roman rule in Britain, the region now known as East Anglia was settled by a North Germanic group known as the Angles, although there is evidence of early settlement of the region by a minority of other peoples, for instance the Swabians, who settled in the area around the modern town of Swaffham.

Originally Schleswig was homeland of the Angles ; when, in the Viking Age, Denmark tried to increase its influence, this was finally rejected by the Holy Roman Empire after several wars with Denmark.

The suffix of the Anglo-Saxon name Tadcaster is derived from the borrowed Latin word castra meaning ' fort ', although the Angles and Saxons used it for any walled Roman settlement.

This retelling of the popular legend eschews the use of magic ( as in T. H. White ’ s The Sword in the Stone ) to explain Arthur ’ s ascent to power and instead relies on the historical condition ( with some artistic licence ) of post-Roman Britain to support the theory that Arthur was meant to counter the anarchy left by the Roman departure from Britain in 410 AD and the subsequent colonization and invasion of Britain by various peoples from Northwestern Europe, including the Saxons, Jutes, Franks, and Angles.

This theme was developed from Gildas ' work, which denounced the sins of the native rulers during the invasions, with the elaboration by Bede that the invasion and settlement of the British Isles by the Angles and Saxons was God's punishment for the lack of missionary effort and the refusal to accept the Roman date for celebrating Easter.

It is a plea to Aëtius, military leader of the Western Roman Empire who spent most of the 440s fighting insurgents in Gaul and Hispania, an attempt to persuade the late Western Roman Empire to help defend Britain from the rebelling Jutes, Angles and Saxons after the Roman withdrawal.

The Germanic tribes who would later give rise to the English language ( the Angles, Saxon and Jutes ) traded and fought with the Latin speaking Roman Empire.

There are two words in modern Welsh for the English and this reflects the idea held by some that the modern English derive from various Germanic tribes ( although there is little evidence for the extinction of the pre-Germanic inhabitants of England, and the idea ignores both the Scandinavian settlers in England and the Roman and Norman-French influences on English language, culture and identity ): Saeson ( singular: Sais ), meaning originally Saxon ; and: Eingl, denoting :- Angles ,; meaning Englishmen in modern Welsh.

Saxon " pirates " had been raiding the eastern seaboard of Britain from here during the 3rd and 4th centuries ( prompting the construction of maritime defences in eastern Britain called the Saxon Shore ) and it is thought that following the collapse of the Roman defences on the Rhine in 407 pressure from population movements in the east forced the Saxons and their neighbouring tribes the Angles and the Jutes to migrate westwards by sea and invade the fertile lowland areas of Britain.

The word in its original sense appears in many place names, and can include fortifications of all sizes and types, for example, Din Eidyn, in Gaelic Dùn Èideann which the Angles renamed Edinburgh, Dún na nGall in Ireland ( Irish Gaelic: " fort of foreigners ") renamed Donegal by English planters, and the Broch Dun Telve in Glenelg.

Since the Angles took a geographic name, they possibly had other names not based on geography.

Latin, the common language of the church, Old English, the language of the Angles and Saxons, Irish, spoken on the western coasts of Britain and in Ireland, Brythonic, ancestor of the Welsh language, spoken in large parts of western Britain, and Pictish, spoken in northern Britain.

Bede places the homeland of the Jutes on the other side of the Angles relative to the Saxons, which would mean the northern part of the Jutland Peninsula.

( eds ) ( 2010 ) This England, That Shakespeare: New Angles on Englishness and the Bard.

.. Sceaf ; who, as some affirm, was driven on a certain island in Germany, called Scandza, ( of which Jornandes, the historian of the Goths, speaks ), a little boy in a skiff, without any attendant, asleep, with a handful of corn at his head, whence he was called Sceaf ; and, on account of his singular appearance, being well received by the men of that country, and carefully educated, in his riper age he reigned in a town which was called Slaswic, but at present Haithebi ; which country, called old Anglia, whence the Angles came into Britain, is situated between the Saxons and the Goths.

* ITV Local Anglia's entertainment show All Angles on Aldeburgh Festival June 2008

* ITV Local Anglia's entertainment show All Angles on Aldeburgh Festival June 2008

A number of members have embarked on a variety of side projects, although a fourth album, entitled Angles, was released on March 22, 2011.

Its members, DJ Babu from the DJ crew Beat Junkies ; Evidence ; and Rakaa joined together in 1992 and released " Third Degree " ( 1997 ) and " Work the Angles " ( 1998 ) on ABB Records, developing a solid fan base in the underground hip hop community.

Angles of incidence of about 6 ° are common on most general aviation designs.

The two movies, broken up into eight episodes in its U. S. run on Cartoon Network's Toonami, revealed much of Mainframe's history, including the formation of Lost Angles, Bob's arrival in the system, and the origin of Megabyte and Hexadecimal.

* Munching on Inscribed Angles

:"... from the Angles, that is, the country which is called Anglia, and which is said, from that time, to remain desert to this day, between the provinces of the Jutes and the Saxons, are descended the East Angles, the Midland Angles, Mercians, all the race of the Northumbrians, that is, of those nations that dwell on the north side of the river Humber, and the other nations of the English.

The definitions given above are based partly on a historical understanding of the relationship between Britons, Angles and Gaels ( and later, Norse and Normans ) which was more complex than a simple process of invasion and settlement, and partly on geography which becomes less well defined as we move north.

The Angles and the Saxons had their own religion, but Christianity was on its way.

Krust is also known for his 1996 release " Angles " on V Recordings and " True Stories " released on Talkin ' Loud in 1998.

In the Early Middle Ages, Windsor Forest came under the control of the pagan Angles who worshiped their own pantheon of gods, including Woden, who was sometimes depicted as horned ,, and whose Norse equivalent Odin rode across the night sky with his own Wild Hunt and hanged himself on the world tree Yggdrasil in order to learn the secret of the runic alphabet.

There has been a habitation in Oadby since an Anglian settlement in the year 550 In 1760, on Brocks Hill, evidence of an Anglian burial ground was discovered The Middle Angles came under the rule of the kings of Mercia and were later conquered by the Danish invaders.