Angli

Bede adds, that he again asked, what was the name of that nation, and was answered, that they were called Angli or Angles.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

It is probable that the "Angli" were the men of Lothian; but it must also be recollected both that the term included the Anglo-Norman nobility

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

"these Frenchmen", would seem to show that the "Angli" are, at all events, clearly distinguished from the Picts of Galloway and the Scots who, like Malise of Strathern, came from beyond the Forth.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

The "Angli" are, above all others, the knights in mail. [

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

'Non Angli, sed angeli' is what the future Pope Gregory the Great is supposed to have said at the sight of fair-haired Anglo-Saxon boys being sold as slaves in Rome: tradition has it that he was so struck by this encounter that he set about the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity (Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, II,1).

The Christian Artist 2009

This new piece of Angli-jargon, experiential discernment, gives the game away: the Diocese of Ottawa has abandoned its Christian heritage in favour of mock existentialist soup.

Diocese of Ottawa: making wrong things right by doing them « Anglican Samizdat 2009

If I were just told that a 4th century character were Frisian, I would take the implication to be proto-English - though not listed by Bede, surely Frisians were in the mix of people whom everyone else called Saxons, and who eventually called themselves Angli.

Lord of Silver, by Alan Fisk. Book review Carla 2008

As well as his travels in Roman Britain, Austalis journeys to the tribal kingdoms involved in the Barbarian Conspiracy, including his homeland of Gododdin, the lands of the mysterious Attacotti here identified as the inhabitants of the Hebrides and speaking a language related to Basque, the Irish settlers in what is now Wales, and the Germanic kingdoms of continental Europe such as the Frisians, Saxons and Angli.

Lord of Silver, by Alan Fisk. Book review Carla 2008

As well as his travels in Roman Britain, Austalis journeys to the tribal kingdoms involved in the Barbarian Conspiracy, including his homeland of Gododdin, the lands of the mysterious Attacotti here identified as the inhabitants of the Hebrides and speaking a language related to Basque, the Irish settlers in what is now Wales, and the Germanic kingdoms of continental Europe such as the Frisians, Saxons and Angli.

Archive 2008-07-01 Carla 2008

Virgil taxeth in our nation: Angli ut plurimum caesiis oculis, we have grey eyes for the most part.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007