Before the Anglo-Saxons came they were just Britons. “Wealsc” was the old German word for foreigner, and they drove them into what is now Wales. Of course the Britons of 5,000 years ago predated the Celtic Britons, who displaced them, only to be displaced themselves millennia later.
It’s interesting how many names of peoples we use were given them by their neighbors/enemies. Early Saxons would have identified themselves as member of different Germanic tribes. But they all had the tradition of wear seax knives to show they were free men who were allowed to carry weapons. Their neighbors called them seax-men or Saxons. Likewise the old German name for spear was “ger” or “gar”, so the Romans called them Germans, or spear-men.
Good stuff worthy of FR.
But the site where they quarried the Bluestones is 160 miles from the site they built Stonehenge.
Why did they go that far? Have they any theories?