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.

They were perhaps not named " Angles " at that time ; however, the territory of the Teutones probably included the Vorpommern and the region south to the Elbe ( mainly Holstein ), accounting for the implied larger range of the Angles in later sources.

The Suebian language developed into Old High German, while the Angles and Jutes were among the speakers of Old Saxon.

When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").

Collectively known as the " Anglo-Saxons ", these were mainly Saxons from Northern Germany, and Angles and Jutes from the Jutland peninsula.

Finally, there were the English or " Angles ", Germanic invaders who had overrun much of southern Britain and held the Kingdom of Bernicia, in the south-east.

In his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Bede records that the first chieftains among the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in England were said to be Hengist and Horsa.

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.

Other Gaels, such as Caustantín and Óengus, the sons of Fergus, were identified among the Pictish king lists, as were Angles such as Talorcen son of Eanfrith, and Britons such as Bridei son of Beli.

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

These tribes, including the Angles and Saxons, who later became the English, were unable to make inroads into Wales except possibly along the Severn Valley as far as Llanidloes.

The Canadian monarchy can trace its ancestral lineage back to the kings of the Angles and the early Scottish kings, through centuries since parts of the territories that today comprise Canada were claimed by King Henry VII in 1497 and others by King Francis I in 1534 ; both being blood relatives of the current Canadian monarch.

Richard North theorizes that glossing Latin vanitates (" vanities ", " idols ") for " gods " in Old English sources implies the existence of * uuani ( a reconstructed cognate to Old Norse Vanir ) in Deiran dialect and hence that the gods that Edwin of Northumbria and the northern Angles worshiped in pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon England were likely to have been the * uuani.

The Irish annals record that in 638, after the events related in Y Gododdin, " Etin " was besieged by the Angles under Oswald of Northumbria, and the Gododdin were defeated.

The migrants who came first were Germanic tribes such as the Goths, Vandals, Angles, Saxons, Lombards, Suebi, Frisii and Franks ; they were later pushed westwards by the Huns, Avars, Slavs, Bulgars and Alans.

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.

It is thought some of the Iceni may have moved west into the Fens to avoid the Angles, who were migrating across the North Sea from Angeln ( modern Schleswig ) and settling what would become East Anglia.

The story tells that the " Saxons "— which probably includes Angles and Jutes — arrived at the banquet armed, surprising the British, who were slaughtered.

According to early historians such as the Venerable Bede and Gildas, whose writings were later brought together in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in 449 Angles, Saxons and Jutes were invited to Britain by King Vortigern as mercenaries to help defend Britain against Picts and Scots.

In the same period Angles had conquered the previously Brythonic territory south of the Clyde and Forth, initially creating the Anglo Saxon kingdom of Bernicia, later becoming a part of the Kingdom of Northumbria.

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.

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.

Popular with dog walkers and ramblers, it is the site where four long-distance footpaths meet: Angles Way, Icknield Way Path, Iceni Way and Peddars Way ( part of the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path National Trail ).

The old Scandinavian sagas, perhaps dating back to the times of the Angles and Jutes give the impression that Jutland has been divided into a northern and a southern part with the border running along the Kongeå River.

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.

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.

It is notable that the people inhabiting the Lothians were Angles ( formally part of the Kingdom of Northumbria ).

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.

Finally, and not least, there were the ' English ', the Angles, a Germanic people who had established a number of kingdoms in Great Britain, including the Kingdom of Bernicia, part of which was in the south-east of modern Scotland.

The county of Suffolk ( Sudfole, Suthfolc, meaning ' southern folk ') was formed from the south part of the kingdom of East Anglia which had been settled by the Angles in the latter half of the 5th century.

The village has Anglo-Saxon origins, and was part of the large central kingdom of Mercia, which was settled by Angles.

Norfolk was part of the kingdom of the East Angles during much of the Anglo-Saxon period.

The Angles were probably occupying territory abandoned at least in part by the Harudes, as the latter migrated into Norway.

This leads to a conclusion that the " Angles " described by Bede included all the people who populated modern Schleswig-Holstein and Western Pomerania south to the first big bend in the Elbe, and potentially members of any of the other language related groups that were recorded under different names grouped by late ethnologists as Ingaevones.

Approximate central regions of tribes mentioned in Beowulf with the location of the Angeln | Angles.

The siege lasted four months before the fortress fell to the Vikings who returned to Ireland with many prisoners, " Angles, Britons and Picts ", in 871.

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.

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.

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.

Major argues that the capture of Silchester, of which no record has survived, was not the work of Angles but of the West Saxons, who probably struck north from Winchester, possibly acting in concert with a separate force making its way up the Thames Valley towards Reading.

Apart from standard English, Northumbria has a series of closely related but distinctive dialects, descended from the early Germanic languages of the Angles, of which 80 % of its vocabulary is derived, and Vikings with a few Celtic and Latin loanwords.

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.

The group opened the show with " Love's Lines, Angles And Rhymes " and later joined Connie Stevens for " Puppet Man ".

He was successful, and Penda was killed, along with many of his allies, including King Æthelhere of the East Angles.

.. 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.

Its name came from Old English Swǣfa hām = " the homestead of the Swabians "; some of them presumably came with the Angles and Saxons.

At Cromer, the Weavers ' Way links with the North Norfolk Coastal Path, and at Great Yarmouth it joins the Angles Way.

Of the German tribes that spread through Europe, the theorists identified that: the Burgundians, Franks, and Western Goths joined with the Gauls to make France ; the Lombards moved south and joined with the Italians ; The Jutes made Denmark ; The Angles made England ; The Flemings made Belgium ; other tribes made Holland.

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.

* Jill Freud ( born 1927 ), actress ( and wife of Sir Clement Freud MP for Isle of Ely 1973-87 ) founded ' Jill Freud and Company ' whilst working with the Angles Theatre in 1980.

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.

Bede, describing Peada as " an excellent youth, and most worthy of the title and person of a king ", wrote that he sought to marry Alchflaed, the daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria ; Oswiu, however, made this conditional upon Peada's baptism and conversion to Christianity, along with the Middle Angles ( Peada was, at this time, still a pagan, like his father ).

Published science and theory proves that the current specifications fail to show a consistency with the coefficient of retroreflection ( RA ) for Entrance Angles and Observation Angles in relation to the Critical Detection Distance.

In the Early Middle Ages the river is believed to have been the border between the related Germanic tribes the Jutes and the Angles who during this period, along with the neighboring Saxons crossed the North Sea from this region and settled in England.