Irish academic calls for the term 'Anglo-Saxon' to be DROPPED from modern speech because it has 'links with white supremacists'

"Anglo-Saxon" is simply history. Post-Roman Britannia was successfully invaded in about 500AD by Germans from Jutland.

Most of Jutland is now Denmark.  It was originally German. The Danes came South from Norway, immediately North of Jutland.  They were early Vikings. They pressed hard on the Germans, forcing many of them to relocate to Britannia. 

Jutes came from North Jutland, Angles from central Jutland and Saxons from South Jutland.  Saxons were never overrun by the Danes but were busy pushing South in Germany so came to Britannia in only small numbers. So the invasion of Britannia was dominated by Angles -- who therefore gave the new domain their name -- England.  We still speak a derivative of their language.

Slightly later, the Danes also came to what was by then England.  The Danes never conquered the Saxons in Saxony and were also eventually driven out of England by Saxons.  The Saxons were the tough guys.

So the term "Anglo-Saxon" is accurate testimony to great historical events in the ancestry of many people reading this blog.  But Leftists hate history

There is a sense in which England is still ruled by Saxons.  The historic surname of the present British monarchy is Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, where "Sachsen" is the German spelling of Saxony


The term Anglo-Saxon is 'bound up with white supremacy' and should be replaced with 'early English', academics have argued.

Anglo-Saxon traditionally refers to groups from Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands who settled in Britain at the end of Roman rule.

However, early medieval England specialist Mary Rambaran-Olm, an independent scholar and author, claimed the term is used by white supremacists to refer to white British people and should be banned.

The academic – raised in Canada and now based in Ireland – says previous objections to the term Dark Ages sets a precedent.

She told The Times: 'Generally, white supremacists use the term to make some sort of connection to their heritage (which is inaccurate) or to make associations with 'whiteness' but they also habitually misuse it to try and connect themselves to a warrior past.'

Miss Rambaran-Olm said people in early England – or 'Englelond' – did not call themselves Anglo-Saxons but tended to refer to themselves as 'Englisc' or 'Anglecynn'.

The academic said the term became more popular in the 18th and 19th century and was used to link white people to their 'supposed origins'.

Hitler wrote of the 'Anglo-Saxon determination' to hold India, while imperialist Cecil Rhodes also regularly used the term.

John Overholt, curator of early books and manuscripts at Harvard's Houghton Library, backed a ban on the term.

'The term Anglo-Saxon is inextricably bound up with pseudohistorical accounts of white supremacy, and gives aid and comfort to contemporary white supremacists,' he wrote on Twitter. 'Scholars of medieval history must abandon it.'

Earlier this year the International Society of Anglo Saxonists took a poll of its 600 members, and 60 per cent of the group agreed to remove the reference to 'Anglo-Saxon' from its name.

But Tom Holland, author of books including Athelstan: The Making of England, said the term was 'inextricably bound up with the claim by Alfred ... to rule as a shared Anglian-Saxon identity'.  'Scholars must be free to use it,' he said.

In a tweet, he wrote of the idea to ditch the term Anglo-Saxon: 'Mad as a bag of ferrets, as they say in Deira [a former kingdom].'

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