1675: Where 'Saxon' survived in Britain Jul 16, 2019

England is named for the Anglo-Saxons, but it's not called Engl-Saxland. The Saxon name was displaced by natural evolution of language, but there is another place where the name lives on. The inhabitants of Britain before the Anglo-Saxons were Brittons, a broad collection of Celtic speaking peoples, and many of them would have referred to the Germanic peoples as Saxons. This is maintained in the Modern Welsh word 'Saeson' meaning 'English people', and shares commonalities with similar words in Scots Gaelic and Irish.
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