International English English language evolved in England, from a set of West Germanic dialects spoken by the Angles and Saxons, who arrived from continental Europe in the 5th century. Those dialects came to be known as "Englisc" (literally "Anglish"), the language today referred to as Anglo-Saxon or Old English (the language of the poem "Beowulf"). However, less than a quarter of the vocabulary of Modern English is derived from the shared ancestry with other West Germanic languages because of extensive borrowings from Norse, Norman, Latin, and other languages. It was during the Viking invasions of the Anglo-Saxon period that Old English was
Anglo-Saxon dress with one knife rather than several, and smaller than the adults'. Children's clothes were stitched together. No brooches or buckles were found in their burials. Children had simple clothing. Anglo-Saxon dress Anglo-Saxon dress refers to the variety of early medieval European dress, or clothing, worn by the Anglo-Saxons from the time of their migration to Great Britain in the 5th century until the beginning of the Norman Conquest. The line of Saxon kings began with Egbert in 827 and ended when Harold II was defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings cementing the Normans as the rulers