Today, a route they inspired — the Malerweg, German for “painters’ way” — will take you more than 110 kilometres through the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, in Saxon Switzerland National Park.

Great! Well let’s start at the beginning. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066 and they originally come from Germany and Scandinavia. Some historians say they were driven from ...

is the most valuable source for this era—gives the year of the fateful invitation as around 450 and characterizes the soldiers as coming from "three very powerful Germanic tribes, the Saxons ...