English Society
(Britain) The origins of ‘England’ began with the departure of the Legions and heterogeneous Romans in the early 5th century. Native British, Brythonic Celts were rapidly dominated by the Nordic Saxon tribe of Angelii people from southern Denmark. There was a progressive acculturation of the Romano British as the Celtic language became displaced (in most places) by ‘old English’. It is from the Angelii that the land took its name. England was subsequently adopted by Viking Danes whose Scandinavian pedigree…