The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names

Carroll, Jayne; Baker, John

Abstract

Bede famously traced the origins of the Anglo-Saxons back to three of the strongest Germanic “tribes”:

They came from three very powerful Germanic tribes [de tribus Germaniae populis fortioribus], the Saxons [Saxonibus], Angles [Anglis], and Jutes [Iutis]. The people of Kent and the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight are of Jutish origin and also those opposite the Isle of Wight, that part of the kingdom of Wessex which is still today called the nation of the Jutes. From the Saxon country, that is, the district now known as Old Saxony, came the East Saxons, the South Saxons, and the West Saxons. Besides this, from the country of the Angles, that is the land between the kingdoms of the Jutes and the Saxons, which is called Angulus, came the East Angles, the Middle Angles, the Mercians, and all the Northumbrian race (that is those people who dwell north of the river Humber) as well as the other Anglian tribes.1

Citation

Carroll, J., & Baker, J. (2020). The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names. In L. Alexander James, & L. Ryan (Eds.), Land of the English Kin: Studies of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Barbara Yorke (112–153). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004421899

• Acceptance Date: Dec 20, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Apr 28, 2020
• Publication Date: Apr 28, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jan 9, 2019
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Pages: 112–153
• Book Title: Land of the English Kin: Studies of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Barbara Yorke
• Chapter Number: 6
• ISBN: 9789004349490
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004421899
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1457789
• Publisher URL: https://brill.com/view/title/35112