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Ammo08Ammo08 Missouri, USAPosts: 387MI6 Agent
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Sussex=Southern Saxons
Wessex=Western Saxons
Essex=Eastern Saxons

Who were the Northern Saxons?
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  • JagJag Posts: 1,167MI6 Agent
    Ammo08 wrote:
    Sussex=Southern Saxons
    Wessex=Western Saxons
    Essex=Eastern Saxons

    Who were the Northern Saxons?

    What Northern Saxons? Thought the North was the Celtic territory...
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Ammo08 wrote:
    Sussex=Southern Saxons
    Wessex=Western Saxons
    Essex=Eastern Saxons

    Who were the Northern Saxons?

    "Welcome to Scotland" :D

    There was no Northern part as the Saxon invasion fell south of most of Scotland and East of Wales:



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  • Ammo08Ammo08 Missouri, USAPosts: 387MI6 Agent
    I guess they couldn't make a go of it at farming or raiding so they turned to music...
    "I don't know if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or imbeciles who mean it."-Mark Twain
    'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'- Benny Hill (1924-1992)
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Recently they published a survey on the genetic make up of the
    British isles, and despite the different "invasions" of parts of the
    UK, by the Normans etc, and how the Celtic parts were left by and
    Large on their own. We are all genetically made up the same.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31953344
    30% of white British dna is German :D
    http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/18/genetic-study-30-percent-white-british-dna-german-ancestry
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  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    Ammo08 wrote:
    Sussex=Southern Saxons
    Wessex=Western Saxons
    Essex=Eastern Saxons

    Who were the Northern Saxons?

    ah that's easy Nosex :D
    By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    " No sex please, we're British" :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,865MI6 Agent
    edited August 2015
    The Dragonpolians were the Northern Saxons and I happen to be one. :D
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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