When the Angles, Saxons and Jutes came to Britain in the 4th century AD, they found a well populated, well cultivated land but with a serious problem - the Legions, long its protectors, had gone. The Picts and Scots were over The Wall and ravaging Northern England.

Tradition has it that the first Angle chiefs  to arrive from Northern Germany and Jutland were called Hengist and Horsa. At first they came as pirates, looted and burned, foght with the Celts and went back to Northern Germany. However as time progressed more and more Anglo-Saxons (and Jutes!) started to settle, mostly in South Eastern England. From the Angles name comes England's name "Aengland" becoming in time - England.

The Celtic-British, now Romanised and a lot less warlike after four centuries of Roman occupation, fought back as best they could under the semi-legendary Artorius. The Celts won many battles but in the end, the constant waves of new Anglo-Saxon invaders, drove the Celts into Wales, Scotland and South-West England (reputed home of "Camelot").

The Anglo-Saxons in their turn started to settle and though pagans when they arrived soon became Christianised. Woden (similar to Odin - the Norse deity), was deserted for the new found Christ. Anglo Saxon churches are still a feature of many parts of Britain.

The Anglo-Saxon, still a tribal people before being united under kings such as the famous Alfred the Great, leave their mark in some of our place names today. Norfolk and Suffolk being the lands of the North and South folk. Sussex, meaning the place of the South Saxons, similarly with Wessex (now long gone) and Essex - the land of the East Saxons. Many towns and cities also bear witness to our Anglo-Saxon forebears.

This great people not only drove out the most resolute Celts, but blended easily in with those who remained. They were after all cousins in the great Aryan folk wandering. From the 5th century through to the tenth, the country of England was gradually unified (with the exception of the Norse invaders, for which see the next chapter). Kings such as Edmund, Aethelred and Alfred building up a fierce and solidified English people.

Our Anglo-Saxon past with coming Norse and Norman additions more or less created the British people we see around us today. We are a White people, with Nordic and Keltic admixtures - all of them of course part of the greater Aryan people. England prospered, whilst Wales and Scotland held out with the last of the true Celts. But clouds were gathering once again on the North-Eastern horizon - the Vikings were about to enter the scene!