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Saxons, Germanic people who first appear in history after the beginning of the Christian era. The earliest mention of the Saxons is by the Egyptian...

Anglo-Saxons ( Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.)

Anglo-Saxons, collective name for peoples speaking a Germanic language who migrated to Britain in the 5th to 6th centuries ad from the North Sea...

“Charlemagne's War Against the Saxons”: by Einhard

This account of Charlemagne's war against the Saxons, written by Einhard (770-840), the emperor's biographer, demonstrates the manner of...

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- member of ancient Germanic people: a member of a West Germanic people who started to spread west during Roman times, establishing powerful kingdoms with the Angles in southern Britain in the 7th century ad
- language of ancient Saxons: the group of West Germanic dialects spoken by the ancient...

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