Old English Old English or The Anglo-Saxons came from Germany. Presumably it was using that term as the Romans had used it, to refer to a vast and ill-defined territory east of the Rhine and north of the Danube, extending as far east as the vistula in present-day Poland and as far north as present-day Sweden and Norway. This teritory was nothing like a nations, but rather was inhabited by numerous tribes which were closely related culturally and linguistically. The language spoken by the inhabitants of Germania were a branch of the Indo-European family of language, which linguists believe developed from a single language spoken some five thousand years agoin an area that has never been identified-perhaps, some say, the Caucasus.

By Fauzul Ramadan S (A1 D2 04 031)
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