Where did the ancestors of the British come from?

The Anglo-Saxons first lived in northern Europe, jutland, the Danish Islands and the northwest coast of Germany. From the 5th century to the 6th century, both the Anglo-Saxon tribes migrated south to the North Sea to the island of Great Britain, and it took three or four hundred years for the two tribes to merge into the Anglo-Saxons.

Through conquest and assimilation, the Anglo-Saxons merged with the "natives" (Celts) of Great Britain, and together with the "Danes" and "Normans" who immigrated later, several Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were established one after another. Under the rule of sestan (924 -937), the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom formed England.

Anglo-Saxon, also known as Old English, was a popular language under the rule of Alfred the Great and continued to form the common language of Britain (non-Danish areas). 1066 After the Norman conquest, influenced by the Anglo-Norman language of the Norman ruling class, it was roughly transformed into Middle English between 1 150 and 1500.

Anglo-Saxon is more similar to early Western European languages than Middle English. It is not very classic, and it retains many time features (changes of verbs and nouns) that disappeared from 12 to 14 century.

The closest language to Old English today is Frisian spoken by millions of people in Holland and northern Germany.

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