Anglo+Saxon

The term "Anglo-Saxon" is from writings going back to the time of King Alfred the great who seems to have frequently used the title //rex Anglorum Saxonum// or //rex Angul-Saxonum// (king of the English Saxons. The Old English terms //ænglisc// and //Angelcynn// Angle-kin", //gens Anglorum// when they are first attested had already lost their original sense of referring to the Angles to the exclusion of the Saxons, and in their earliest recorded sense refers to the nation of Germanic peoples who settled England and southern Scotland in and after the 5th century.