And after the Anglo-Saxons, no one looked at the landscape in quite that way until Margaret Gelling.
Like many American settlers, the Anglo-Saxons developed tribal mores around commonwealths of sovereign individuals claiming inherent, inviolable rights.
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Israelis call all native English speakers Anglo-Saxons, even American-born Jews of Russian descent.
We are going to do something a bit different from the Anglo-Saxons.
For France, another chunk of la Francophonie - of French influence in the world - was disappearing beneath the unstoppable advance of the Anglo-Saxons.
More than a thousand years ago, well-off Anglo-Saxons living by the site of present-day Downing Street built a small church on nearby Thorney island.
The Norman defeat of the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of Hastings.
When politicians in Paris or Jakarta thunder about Anglo-Saxons, they are referring not to gunboats but to George Soros, Rupert Murdoch and the visigoths of the Internet.
"It's very posh, similar in style to items found at the burial site at Sutton Hoo and tells us that the Anglo-Saxons potentially visited this place more than once", he said.
While Anglo-Saxons were throwing money around, Germans kept saving.
John Denham, an influential former minister, thinks Britain needs a national story that includes an account of its global role in the 19th century, to explain why migrants from Commonwealth countries belong alongside Anglo-Saxons.
Because of its westerly position and mountainous nature, Anglo-Saxons who moved into central and eastern England after the Romans left did not come that far west, and neither did the Vikings who arrived in around 900AD.
But will the wellspring of the Saxons ultimately join in a rejection of "Anglo-Saxon capitalism"?
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