ĭuring the eighth and ninth centuries the Saxons of Old Saxony were in continual conflict with the Franks, whose kingdom at the time was ruled by the Carolingian dynasty. This general area is close to the probable homeland of the Angles. According to this proposal, the Saxons' earliest area of settlement is believed to have been Northern Albingia. There is possibly a single classical reference to a smaller homeland of an early Saxon tribe, but its interpretation is disputed. Their precise origins are uncertain, and they are sometimes described as fighting inland, coming into conflict with the Franks and Thuringians. In Merovingian times, continental Saxons had been associated with the activity and settlements on the coast of what later became Normandy. Their origins are believed to be in or near the German North Sea coast where they appear later, in Carolingian times. In the late Roman Empire, the name was used to refer to Germanic coastal raiders, and in a similar sense to the later ' Viking' (pirate or raider). The Saxons ( Latin: Saxones, German: Sachsen, Old English: Seaxan, Old Saxon: Sahson, Low German: Sassen, Dutch: Saksen) were a group of Germanic peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country ( Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of northern Germania, in what is now Germany. Originally Germanic and Anglo-Saxon paganism, later Christianity Old Saxony, Jutland, Frisia, Heptarchy ( England) Spread of Angles (orange) and Saxons (blue) around 500 AD

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