The Age of Arthur · Dec 31, 2025

Were the Anglo-Saxons a Germanic people?

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Why some German archaeologists think that the idea is wrong

Jacob Grimm, the founder of historical linguistics (Carl Begas, 1843)

In the early nineteenth century, the German linguist Jacob Grimm set out for the first time the formal historical relationship between German, English, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages. He analysed the earliest records of each language and compared them to the language of the ancie…

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