warriors of ulster they began a slow cultural assimilation of the local picts consequently the modern nation of scotland derives its name from the scottie tribe and the scottish gaelic language still spoken in the country today is a remnant of those irish roots however it would neither be picked nor gale that would be the ultimate game changers of sub-roman britain what exactly defines an anglo-saxon is a heated historiographic debate but broadly speaking they were a diverse amalgamation of tribes from scandinavian and the north german coastline primarily consisting of angles saxons and jutes they were hardy warriors who spoke north germanic languages and worshipped a pagan pantheon similar to the one made famous by the norse vikings centuries later amongst scholarly circles the whens howls and whys of the germanic migrations are topics of intense debate according to gildis the burden of the saxon tide falls upon the historically dubious romano british king named vortigen his reign was a tumultuous one faced with hordes of marauding pictish raiders vortigern was forced to turn to soldiers of fortune from overseas accordingly help came from the germanic warriors of the north sea led by the judish brothers hengest and horsa gildes colors us with his opinion on this hiring the british king and his councillors were so blinded that as a protection to their country they sealed its doom by inviting wolves into the sheepfold the fierce and impious saxons a race hateful to both god and men tradition has it that in the year NUMBER_TOKEN the brothers defeated the pics then promptly betrayed their romano british hosts conquering a swath of southeastern britain that would become the kingdom of kent more germanic migrants would follow in the brothers wake and by NUMBER_TOKEN it seemed as if the western half of england was firmly in angle saxon or judish hands these territories became known to the celtic britons as cryger the lost lands it was likely around this time that some britons who lived on the island's south west began taking to the seas in flight from the germanic invaders they established themselves in the american peninsula the first of several waves of settlers to arrive in the region thus the peninsula became known as brittany after the britons who settled it anecdotally a region that had been celtic speaking in ancient times but was then thoroughly latinized by the roman empire was re-cultised by british refugees centuries later and retains its celtic language and identity to this day the saxons had established themselves in britain but it appears that for a time the natives were able to keep them contained by winning a series of military victories led if legend is to be believed by a certain dux belorum named arthur herein lies the great mystery was arthur a real historical figure if he did exist it was not amongst the knights wizards and castles of the high medieval era but the spears and hill forts
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