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The Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes gave the larger part of Britain its new name: “England”, that means, “the land of the Angles”.
Most Anglo-Saxons invaders were farmers looking for richer lands, but many of them were also deep-sea fishermen used to hunting seals and whales in the stormy ocean.
They exalted physical courage and personal freedom.
At the end of the 6th century, Pope Gregory I the Great sent a monk, Augustine, to bring Christianity back to England.
Alfred the Great was the Anglo-Saxons' king.
Athelstan can be described as the father of the English state. The 927 AD was the year in which he created a kingdom of the whole England.
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