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- English identity began with the Anglo-Saxons, when they were known as the Angelcynn, meaning race or tribe of the Angles. Their ethnonym is derived from the...
- Britain. The Anglo-Saxons referred to themselves as the Engle or the Angelcynn, originally names of the Angles. They called their land Engla land, meaning...
- adaptation of this trend in Alfred's policy of ****erting authority over the Angelcynn, in which Scyldic descent was attributed to the West-Saxon royal pedigree...
- Thus, the term for English people (Latin: gens Anglorum; Old English: Angelcynn) was in use by then to distinguish Germanic groups in Britain from those...
- heofonwaru (inhabitants of heaven), and helwaru (inhabitants of ****). Angelcynn is neuter, Angelðeod feminine, and both mean "the Angles, the English...
- Britain as the "English" people (Latin Angli, gens Anglorum or Old English Angelcynn). In Bede's work the term "Saxon" is also used to refer sometimes to the...
- retaken from the Vikings. The West Saxon rulers were now kings of the Angelcynn, that is of the whole English folk. With the death of Edgar, however,...
- East Anglia are derived from words referring to the Angles: Englisc, Angelcynn and Englaland. For 300 years following the Norman Conquest in 1066, the...
- England, Oxford, Blackwell 1998, p. 170f. ISBN 0-631-15565-1 "The Making of Angelcynn: English Identity before the Norman Conquest", Transactions of the Royal...
- Etymology of England. Anglia, a former name: As above, in its Latin form. Angelcynn, a former name: "Folk of the Angles", from Old English, name used by Alfred...