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Who came to Britain first Saxons or Vikings?
In fact the Saxon Shore in Southern England was a Roman built line of coastal fortifications in England to stop sea raiders much like the Vikings. The Anglo Saxons came long before the Vikings to the British Isles.Britons

During the Roman occupation England was inhabited by Celtic-speaking Brythons (or Britons), but the Brythons yielded to the invading Teutonic Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (from present northwestern Germany) except in the mountainous areas of western and northern Great Britain.And for the thousand years from 55 B.C. to 1066, Britain was repeatedly raided and invaded. In 55 BC, 54 BC and 43 AD, it was the Romans; from the late 8th century to the early 11th century, it was the Vikings; and in 1066 – as we all know – it was the Normans.

When did the Saxons first arrive in Britain : Bede gave a precise date, 449AD, for the first arrival of the Anglo-Saxons and he said they came from three tribes: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who themselves came from different parts of Germany and Denmark – the Angles were from Angeln, which is a small district in northern Germany; the Saxons were from what is now …

Who was before the Vikings

North from there, in the inland lived the Sámis (Sápmi ) and the Kvens (Kvenland ), Finnic peoples who sometimes lived side to side with the Norsemen and who traded (and, for the latter, sometimes raided) with them. Viking-Age Scandinavia was thus not uniformly North-Germanic, but Finnic too.

Who were the first people in England : The oldest human remains so far found in England date from about 500,000 years ago, and belonged to a six-foot tall man of the species Homo heidelbergensis. Shorter, stockier Neanderthals visited Britain between 300,000 and 35,000 years ago, followed by the direct ancestors of modern humans.

In AD 43 the Roman conquest of Britain began; the Romans maintained control of their province of Britannia until the early 5th century. The end of Roman rule in Britain facilitated the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, which historians often regard as the origin of England and of the English people.

The Anglo-Saxons. The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from 450 to 1066; their reign saw the creation of a unified English nation, culture, and identity, setting the foundation for modern England.

Who came first in England

The oldest human remains so far found in England date from about 500,000 years ago, and belonged to a six-foot tall man of the species Homo heidelbergensis. Shorter, stockier Neanderthals visited Britain between 300,000 and 35,000 years ago, followed by the direct ancestors of modern humans.The oldest human remains so far found in England date from about 500,000 years ago, and belonged to a six-foot tall man of the species Homo heidelbergensis. Shorter, stockier Neanderthals visited Britain between 300,000 and 35,000 years ago, followed by the direct ancestors of modern humans.793

When did the raids start The first big Viking attack on what is now England was the raid on Lindisfarne Priory in Northumbria in 793.

if we talk consolidation, Denmark (ca. 960) is just slightly older than Norway (unless we include Norwegian king Harald Hairfair's victory in 871). Sweden began it's consolidation around 1350, I would say it was finished in 1543, the year Gustav Vasa won the last Swedish civil war, “Dackefejden”.

Who inhabited Scandinavia first : The first phase of human habitation of Scandinavia are the Fosna culture (beginning 8,000 BC) and the Komsa Stone Age culture (beginning approximately 6,000 BC), named after the mountain in the vicinity of this culture's first find.

Who are the original Britons : The Britons (*Pritanī, Latin: Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).

Who arrived to Britain first

Homo heidelbergensis

Tall and imposing, this early human species is the first for whom we have fossil evidence in Britain: a leg bone and two teeth found at Boxgrove in West Sussex. Living here about 500,000 years ago these people skilfully butchered large animals, leaving behind many horse, deer and rhinoceros bones.

The oldest human remains so far found in England date from about 500,000 years ago, and belonged to a six-foot tall man of the species Homo heidelbergensis. Shorter, stockier Neanderthals visited Britain between 300,000 and 35,000 years ago, followed by the direct ancestors of modern humans.The oldest human remains so far found in England date from about 500,000 years ago, and belonged to a six-foot tall man of the species Homo heidelbergensis. Shorter, stockier Neanderthals visited Britain between 300,000 and 35,000 years ago, followed by the direct ancestors of modern humans.

Who colonized England first : the Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxon migrations. In the wake of the breakdown of Roman rule in Britain from the middle of the fourth century, present day England was progressively settled by Germanic groups. Collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, these included Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians.