The Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians were seafaring warriors who at first fought often among themselves.
Wyrd - gloomy outlook on life in which one’s fate, unavoidable
By the end of the 7th century Christianity had become firmly established. Christianity brought beginnings of education and culture.
Anglo-Saxon civilisation emerged- 7 kingdoms were allied in the so-called ==Heptarchy====:==
==Northumbia== ==and== ==Mercia====, the kingdoms of the Angles in the north,==
==Kent====, the kingdom of the Jutes in the southeast,==
==Essex, Wessex, Middlesex, Sussex====, the kingdoms of the Saxons in the south and west.==
Around the 9th century Vikings began to attack Britain. Alfred the Great, king of Wessex halted the vikings.
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