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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...
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Alfred the Great's
translation of Orosius's
history of the
world uses
Angelcynn (-kin) to
describe the
English people; Bede uses
Angelfolc (-folk); also...
- 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...
- 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...
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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...
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heofonwaru (inhabitants of heaven), and
helwaru (inhabitants of ****).
Angelcynn is neuter, Angelðeod feminine, and both mean "the Angles, the English...
- angeli" (not
English but angels). The
terms ænglisc (the language) and
Angelcynn (the people) were also used by West
Saxon King
Alfred to
refer to the...
- East
Anglia are
derived from
words referring to the Angles: Englisc,
Angelcynn and Englaland. For 300
years following the
Norman Conquest in 1066, the...
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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,...
- 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...
