The Angles, Saxons and Jutes: Missionaries travelled around the country converting communities from their pagan rituals to Christian beliefs. The Angles, Saxon and Jutes, more commonly known as the Anglo-Saxons, came from Denmark, northern Germany and northern Holland. Their branch of the language tree was one of three collectively called Germanic: • North Germanic – Icelandic, Faeroese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish • East Germanic – Gothic • West Germanic – English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Germa (1 jan 410 ano – 1 jan 1066 ano)

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The Angles, Saxon and Jutes, more commonly known as the Anglo-Saxons, came from Denmark, northern Germany and northern Holland.
Although there were differences between the language variants spoken by these three groups – it is not known how easily they could understand each other – they shared a linguistic heritage.
Their branch of the language tree was one of three collectively called Germanic: • North Germanic – Icelandic, Faeroese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish
• East Germanic – Gothic
• West Germanic – English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, German
Because the Britons offered no unified resistance to the invaders and their languages, the languages of the Angles,Saxons, Jutes and slowly evolved into what became known as ‘Old English’.
According to literary scholars, the vast majority of the 100 most commonly used English words come from Old English, including ‘and’, ‘down’, ‘each’, ‘many’, ‘part’, ‘the’, ‘time’, ‘water’, ‘with’ & ‘write’.
Many other Anglo-Saxon words that reflected everyday life remain in modern English, such as ‘earth’ (eorthe), ‘field’ (feld), ‘ship’ (scip), ‘sheep’ (sceap), ‘wood’ (widu) & ‘work’ (weorc).
The names given to the days of the week have their origins in Anglo-Saxon times. • Sunnandaeg (‘day of the sun’), Monandaeg (‘day of the moon’) and Saeterdaeg (‘Saturn’s day’). • Tiwesdaeg (‘Tiw’s day’), Woensdag (‘Odin’s or Woden’s day’), Thursdaeg (‘Thor's day’) and
Frigedaeg (‘Frigga's day’).

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