The name of the Saxons may derive from a kind of knife associated with the ethnos; such a knife has the name seax in Old … See more

Ptolemy's Geographia, written in the second century, is sometimes considered to contain the first mentioning of the Saxons. Some copies of this text mention a tribe called Saxones in the area to the north of the lower … See more

Bede, a Northumbrian writing around the year 730, remarks that "the old (that is, the continental) Saxons have no king, but they are governed by several ealdormen (or satrapa) who, during war, cast lots for leadership … See more

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• James Grout: Saxon Advent, part of the Encyclopædia Romana
• Saxons and Britons
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Saxons" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.… See more