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Their Pagan Gods. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes were pagans, that is to say, they believed in many gods. The gods of the Anglo-Saxon; were: Tu, or Tuesco, – god of Darkness, Woden – god of War, Thor the Thunderer, and Freia–goddess of Prosperity. When people learnt, to divide up time into weeks and the week into seven days, they gave the days the names of their gods. It is not hard to guess that Sun day is the day of the sun. Monday – the day of the moon, Tuesday -the day of the god Tuesco, Wednesday – Woden's day. Thursday -Thor's day, Friday – Freia's day, and Saturday – Saturn's day (Saturn was the god of Time worshipped by the ancient Romans).
The Anglo-Saxon Dialects. Britain was divided info seven kingdoms: Kent, Sussex, Essex, Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, and Northumbria which were constantly at war with one another.
Four dialects were spoken in these seven kingdoms: 1) the Northumbrian dialect was spoken by the Angles who lived to the north of the river Humber, in the north­east of England; 2) the Mercian dialect was spoken by the Angles who lived between the river Humber and the Thames; 3) the West-Saxon dialect, or Wessex, was spoken by the Saxons who lived to the south of the Thames; 4) and the fourth, a minor dialect, Kentish, was the language of the Jutes. The language of Scotland, Ireland and Wales remained Celtic.
The Angles, Saxons and Jutes fought with one another for supreme power; they nevertheless became one nation in the course of a few centuries, the first king to rule over all of them was Egbert, king of Wessex. He was made king at the beginning of the 9th century. Most of the works and documents in Old English that are in existence today are written in the Wessex dialect of Anglo-Saxon.
Runes. By the time the Angles and Saxons conquered Britain, they already had letters of their own called "runes" which they carved on stone and wood, but they had no written literature yet, and the stories and poems they made up had to be memorized. These were brought to Britain, and runic inscriptions made in Britain are in existence.