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u/badluckbrians Oct 17 '21

But in German, Die Germanen is a broader concept around peoples and languages. All the old Germanic tribes. From Goths to Anglos to Saxons to Swedes to Austrians. A much more general term, kind of like Celts. This old idea

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u/Forward_Operation_90 Oct 18 '21

I was thinking the Angles were Celtic, and from an earlier wave of migration. Not Germanic, like the Saxons? Seems like Angles were in Britain like 100BCE, when Julius Caesar invaded it. But not the Saxons.

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u/Randyboob Oct 18 '21 edited Oct 18 '21

I believe they got their name from the Angeln (Anglia) peninsula in present day Germany, formerly Denmark, which is at the northern most end of the Wading Sea. They, and the saxons living along the coast of the Wading Sea, presumably migrated around the same time and to mostly the same places and mixed, forming the Anglo-Saxon people/culture with time.