著者

岩谷 道夫

出版者

法政大学キャリアデザイン学部

雑誌

法政大学キャリアデザイン学部紀要 (ISSN:13493043)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, pp.171-190, 2007-03

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Among the Germanic tribes who migrated from the continent to Britain, the Angles formed the two important kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia, which were quite prosperous in the early history of England. In Northumbria, for example, Beda and Alcuin were outstanding in learning and religion, and their works influenced the cultures and thought of later Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The cultural influence of the Angles eventually led to the name -for that part of the British Ilses: England. This paper aims to search for the homeland of the Angles before their migration to Britain. They were said to have lived in the northern part of today's Germany. But it is also said that they had been staying farther south. Which was their true homeland and from which direction did the Angles migrate to Britain? On the other hand, there is a possibility that the Angles had a strong relationship with the Thuringians, especially in the formation of their kingdom. How then did the Angles establish the Thuringian kingdom and when was it? The views of modern scholars on those questions are divided and are not entirely argued on the same grounds. This paper tries to deal with those questions on the same basis, referring mainly to the works of the Roman historians. It also tries to seek for the probable homeland of the Angles and their traces of migration with regard to the Thuringian kingdom.