The Angles is a modern term for a Germanic people, who took their name from the region of Angeln, a district located in what is today Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

The Angles were one of the main groups that settled in Britain in the post-Roman period, founding several of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, and their name is the root of the name England.

The Jutes, Iuti, or Iutæ ( pronounced ) were a Germanic people who, according to Bede, were one of the three most powerful Germanic peoples of their time, the other two being the Saxons and the Angles.

Saxons also called March Rhed-monat or Hreth-monath ( deriving from their goddess Rhedam / Hreth ), and Angles called it Hyld-monath.

* Emperor Honorius sends his Rescript ( diplomatic letters ) to the Romano-British magistrates, where he explains that the cities in Britain must provide for their own defence against the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons.

* Northumbrians and East Angles swear allegiance to Alfred the Great, but promptly break their truce by attacking the south-west of England.

The poem tells of the Gododdin King Mynyddog Mwynfawr, and his band of warriors, who, after a year of feasting in their fortress, set out to do battle with the Angles somewhere in contemporary Yorkshire.

He also gives names in the Historia to the leaders of the Saxons, Hengest and Horsa ; and specifically identifying their tribes, the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes ( H. E., 1. 14, 15 ).

Smaller groups who at that time had their own royalty but were later were absorbed into larger kingdoms include the peoples of Magonsæte, Lindsey, Hwicce, the East Saxons, the South Saxons, the Isle of Wight, and the Middle Angles.

Meanwhile, Beornwulf's defeat emboldened the East Angles to revolt against Mercian rule and revive their own kingdom, in alliance with Wessex.

Both England and the English language, thus, ultimately derive their names from the Angles and Angeln.

The Angles were part of the Federation of the Ingaevones, with their mythical ancestor and god of fertility Yngvi, and both terms might well share the same root ( inglish -> anglish ), say as the origin of the federation.

The region was home to the Germanic people, the Angles, who, together with Saxons and Jutes, left their home to migrate to Britain in the 5th-6th centuries.

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

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.

Probably as a newly ordained priest, he was sent in 653 by Oswiu on a difficult mission to the Middle Angles, at the request of their sub-king Peada, part of a developing pattern of Northumbrian intervention in Mercian affairs.

After Sigeberht abdicated in favour of his co-ruler Ecgric, the East Angles were defeated in battle by the Mercians led by their king Penda, during which both Ecgric and Sigeberht were slain.

Sigeberht abdicated in favour of his co-ruler Ecgric and retired to lead a monastic life, but soon afterwards the East Angles were attacked by Mercian forces, led by their king, Penda.

While much of the county, including west Kent, was settled by the Angles and Saxons, a race known as the Jutes — of similar descent from the Germanic area of Europe – had already made east Kent their home, They regarded themselves as a separate kingdom with their own laws and customs.

In the prologue to the Edda Snorri also mentions sons of Odin who ruled among the continental Angles and Saxons and provides information about their descendants that is identical or very close to traditions recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

They were joined by scores of Norwegians, Finns, Estonians, Curonians, Bjarmians, Livonians, Saxons, Angles, Frisians, Irish, Rus ' etc ... All picking their sides.

The battle at Catraeth has been seen as an attempt to resist the advance of the Angles, who had probably by then occupied the former Votadini lands of Bryneich in modern north-eastern England and made it their kingdom of Bernicia.

At some time after the battle, the Angles absorbed the Gododdin kingdom, possibly after the fall of their capital Din Eidyn in 638, and incorporated it into the kingdom of Northumbria.

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

Local place names Padiham and Habergham show the influence of the Angles, suggesting that some had settled in the area by the early 7th century ; some time later the land became part of the hundred of Blackburnshire.

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 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.

Eanflæd, Eadbald's niece, married Oswiu, king of Northumbria and the last of the northern Angles Bede listed as holding imperium over southern England.

This plan quickly fell apart, as Christian and Angles could not cooperate, leaving them to fight over Styles and Tomko.

Perhaps they were a dynasty or clan competing for power with Offa over the rule of the Angles, though Offa slew two Myrging princes, probably the sons of Eadgils ( not to be confused with the Swedish king Eadgils ); this Eadgils was later killed by Ket and Wig, the sons of Freawine, a governor of Schleswig who challenged Eadgils to combat while he was pillaging in the Angle lands.

He first ruled in Britain over the race of East Angles.

This area overlapped the area of the Angles, a tribe with which they were frequently closely linked.

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.

Whatever the etymology, other linguistic evidence suggests political activity in the area before the advent of the 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.

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 area of Schleswig ( Southern Jutland ) was first inhabited by the mingled West Germanic tribes Cimbri, Angles and Jutes, later also by the North Germanic Danes and West Germanic Frisians.

There is also a connected floating island called " Lost Angles ", a twisted and corrupted area which plays as the lair for the virus Hexadecimal ; this island was revealed in the course of the first half of Season Four to have been Mainframe's sister city until an accident involving Dot and Enzo's father and the arrival of the virus Gigabyte, who immediately morphed into the twin viruses Megabyte and Hexadecimal.

Angeln has a significance far beyond its current small area and country terrain, in that it is believed to have been the original home of the Angles, Germanic immigrants to central and northern England, and East Anglia.

Most of the area today called northern England and been overrun by the invading Angles of Deira and Bernicia who were in the process of forming a united Northumbrian kingdom.

Relics found at a tumulus in Chadderton Fold date from the Early Middle Ages, probably from the early period of Anglo-Saxon England, when Angles settled in the area and Chadderton emerged as a manor of the hundred of Salford.

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.

Although early medieval chroniclers described the immigrants as Angles and Saxons, they came from a much wider area across Northern Europe, and represented a range of different ethnic groups.

In the Anglo-Saxon period the area was originally in the territory of the Middle Angles and later Mercia.

Frieston is a name which belongs to the 5th century settlement of Britain by Anglo-Saxons, in this area mainly Angles, but in this case Frisians.

The Old Norse name from which Dringhouses is derived, indicates the villagers were the descendants of Halfdan, the Viking leader who had taken the area from the Angles and had shared the land among his warriors in 876.