D) adding yet another ethnic component E) because of the mild climate and good soils F) and invaded the country G) but a strikingly high percentage of Celts had red hair In the main, Britain’s ancestors were Anglo-Saxons. Germanic peoples from Europe — the
Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes — arrived in Britain in massive numbers between the 5th
and 7th centuries AD. These people tended to be tall, blond, and blue -eyed. Their language
became the foundation of the basic, short, everyday words in modern English. These
groups invaded and overwhelmed Roman Britain, choosing to settle on the plains of
England
1 ____________ . Native Britons fought the great flood of Germanic peoples, and
many Britons who survived fled west to the hill country. These refugees and native Britons
were Celts
2 ____________ .
Celts tended to be shorter than Anglo-Saxons and have rounder
heads. Most had darker hair,
3 ____________ .
After the Anglo-Saxon conquest, the Celts remained in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland where
Celtic languages are still used to some extent and
Celtic culture is still celebrated. This
geographic separation between the Germanic Anglo-Saxons and the Celts has broken down over
the centuries
4 ____________ .
A substantial number of Scandinavians raided and settled in Great Britain and Ireland during the
9th century. By then the Anglo-Saxons had established agricultural and Christian communities, and
eventually they succeeded in integrating the Scandinavians into their kingdoms. In 1066 the
Normans conquered England,
5 ____________ . Although the Normans were the last major group to
add their people to the British population, waves of other foreigners and refugees have immigrated
to Britain
