What Does Anglo-Saxon Mean ?
Britain fragmented in small kingdom and rival domains, which employed Germanic mercenaries in their inner fights or against the Picts and the Irish. The legend says that a leader called Vortigen opened the way for the Germanic tribes, employing 2 Saxons, Hengist and Horsa. They subsequently turned against him. Saxons and other Germanic people could have been brought between 425-450 AD. The mercenaries turned into invaders, bringing more of their kin, and Britons retreated to the west. At Mount Briton (an unidentified place), Britons managed to achieve a great victory against the Saxons, in 500 AD. This event was associated with a remarkable general, whose name was not known, and whose heroic deeds gave birth to the legend of Arthur. Still, by 615 AD, Britons had retreated to the north and west, and later even Cornwall (West Wales) was conquered by Germanic tribes. Scotland, Wales and Ireland remained Briton and Celt (the Celt border). The conquered territory was called Angleland, from
