The Saxons

At the times of the Vikings of the Netherlands, the Celts of Britain and the mid Aztecs of Mexico there was someone in Germany, in fact, someones. They were the Goths, the Angles, the Jutes and of course, as told about on this page, the Saxons.

The earliest mention of the Saxons ever recorded was by an Egyptian called Ptolemy, a mathematician, and geographer, in 200 AD. They had obviously been there for long before, but were then called ‘The Pirates of the North Sea’. It appears that they began in Jutland, Germany (just below Denmark) and moved west, towards the river ‘Weser. In the second half of the 4^th century AD the Saxons helped the Goths in destroying the Roman Empire. By the 6^th century AD it that they controlled all Northwest Germany as far East as ‘The River Elbe’.

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