Anglo-Saxon: A Semantic Study

Malone, Kemp

doi:10.1093/res/os-v.18.173

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“…The various Germanic tribes in Britain referred to themselves collectively as Engle or Englisc (English; Malone 1929;Morris 1973). Anglo-Saxon is a more recent term with multiple meanings, referring sometimes to either the Germanic invaders or, as used in this paper, the final mixed Britons and Germanic peoples in Britain, among other meanings (Malone 1929). It is misleading to talk of the Britons and Anglo-Saxons as two clearly different, homogenous groups: in reality, the situation was much more complex (Morris 1973;Ward-Perkins 2000).…”

Section: The Theoretical and Evidential Arguments (A) Theoretical Argmentioning

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“…They were not homogeneous people, but a mixture of tribes of Palaeolithic Britons, Neolithic 'Celts' and Belgae (Morris 1973;Bassett 2000). The term Saxon was a generic term used by Britons, and Continental writers of the day, to describe all Germanic invaders or immigrants whatever be their Continental tribal origins, whether Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Frisians, Franks or whoever (Malone 1929;Morris 1973). This meaning of Saxon, used by Gildas writing in the sixth century AD, continued in the various Celtic languages, for which the word for English nationality is derived from the word Saxon, e.g.…”

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“…The various Germanic tribes were not genetically homogeneous: they accepted people of other ethnic backgrounds provided they adopted the tribal culture. The various Germanic tribes in Britain referred to themselves collectively as Engle or Englisc (English; Malone 1929;Morris 1973). Anglo-Saxon is a more recent term with multiple meanings, referring sometimes to either the Germanic invaders or, as used in this paper, the final mixed Britons and Germanic peoples in Britain, among other meanings (Malone 1929).…”

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Is it necessary to assume an apartheid-like social structure in Early Anglo-Saxon England?

Pattison

2008

Proc. R. Soc. B.

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It has recently been argued that there was an apartheid-like social structure operating in Early Anglo-Saxon England. This was proposed in order to explain the relatively high degree of similarity between Germanicspeaking areas of northwest Europe and England. Opinions vary as to whether there was a substantial Germanic invasion or only a relatively small number arrived in Britain during this period. Contrary to the assumption of limited intermarriage made in the apartheid simulation, there is evidence that significant mixing of the British and Germanic peoples occurred, and that the early law codes, such as that of King Ine of Wessex, could have deliberately encouraged such mixing. More importantly, the simulation did not take into account any northwest European immigration that arrived both before and after the Early Anglo-Saxon period. In view of the uncertainty of the places of origin of the various Germanic peoples, and their numbers and dates of arrival, the present study adopts an alternative approach to estimate the percentage of indigenous Britons in the current British population. It was found unnecessary to introduce any special social structure among the diverse Anglo-Saxon people in order to account for the estimates of northwest European intrusion into the British population.

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Section: The Theoretical and Evidential Arguments (A) Theoretical Argmentioning

confidence: 99%

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