"Who were the Angles?" Topic

My google-fu is weak these days and I'm trying to help my daughter with a history project.

Anyone have references on the history of the Angles? (but not Anglo-Saxons, that's for another student)

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Try Anglian influence in England.
Good luck!

A cute Angle once was right but was too obtuse to notice

AFAIK the Angles were a German tribe (or a cluster of tribes) that migrated to the British islands from Denmark, and the northern parts of nowadays Netherlands and Germany in the 5th century. They gave their name to England (Angla-land) as this was probably the area where they mainly settled.

The Angles were the 'Anglo' bit in Anglo-Saxon.

Angles were a Northern Germanic tribe, probably from modern Northern Germany and Southern Denmark. They seem to have been a major part of the Germanic settlers/invaders of Britain after the Romans left in the 5th Century.

Very little is known about the Angles specifically. Anything you research about Anglo-Saxons in general will apply to the Angles!

Pope Gregory was famously said to have remarked, "Non Angli sed angeli" when he saw some captive Angle children .
This means "Not Angles but angels."

Thanks guys. Much appreciated.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles

This would seem like a good place to start.

Pope Gregory was famously said to have remarked, "Non Angli sed angeli" when he saw some captive Angle children.

Should that not be translated as "Not Angles but Anglicians" :-)

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot.

(Does one get booted for Shakespearean quotation?)