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... The name Walton comes from settlement/farmstead of Wealas - native Celts which is what the new Anglo Saxon speaking peoples called the native inhabitants of England ... It was in the Anglo Saxon interest that the native British carry on as usual to ensure the economy produced food and goods for the new landowners ... During the early seventh century, when the Anglo-Saxon royal cemetery at Sutton Hoo was in use, Walton Castle was an important part of the royal environs ...
... main known meanings coming from two different time periods, one is from the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Albion and the Norman conquest of England ... Anglo-Saxon Origin The name "Wallington" derives from the Anglo Saxon "Waletone" meaning "village of the Britons" ... This would be so, as the Anglo-Saxons settled more and more into Albion the native British peoples where segregated into their own villages to begin with ...
... been interpreted as being survivals from Anglo-Saxon paganism ... Henry Bourne stated his belief that the winter custom of the Yule log was a leftover from Anglo-Saxon paganism, however this is an idea that has been disputed by some subsequent research by the likes of historian ... has also been claimed, by some, to be a remnant of Anglo-Saxon paganism ...
... there was an apartheid-like system in early Anglo-Saxon England, which prevented the native British genes mixing with those of the Anglo-Saxon population by restricting intermarriage ... According to research led by University College London, Anglo-Saxon settlers enjoyed a substantial social and economic advantage over the native Ancient Britons, the settlers living in what is ... and King Wihtred of Kent in the 7th century refer to a lower wergild for Briton subjects than for Anglo Saxons ...
... The account of Ælle and his three sons landing at Cymenshore appears in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, a collection of seven vernacular manuscripts, commissioned in the 9th century, some 400 years or more ... the legend of Aelle was provided by an oral tradition regarding the legendary beginning of Saxon Sussex ... the expedient adopted by Romano-British leaders was to enlist the help of Anglo-Saxon mercenaries to whom they ceded territory ...
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“Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words “ANGLO SAXON” on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is remarkable what a value is still put upon wood even in this age and in this new country, a value more permanent and universal than that of gold. After all our discoveries and inventions no man will go by a pile of wood. It is as precious to us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If they made their bows of it, we make our gun-stocks of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)