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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/GardenaGeat on 2023-09-07 23:33:42+00:00.

Since the Romans began to leave modern day England back in the 400s AD, Germanic tribes (mostly from modern day Denmark and northern Germany) such as the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes invaded England, conquering and assimilating with the Celtic Britons of the time.

My question is, what became of these original tribes? Surely not all of them traveled across the sea over to England? I would suspect there were their own settlements that they retained while the other parts of the tribe invaded England. It also makes me wonder what cultural and language related differences may have occurred during the same time that their were Saxons in modern day England and Saxons in modern day Denmark. Did the Saxons who remained in Denmark retain their pagan ways and the Saxons who went to England became christianized? Did the Saxons who remained in Denmark take on a new name? Same with the Angles and Jutes.