The Saxons
The Britons had supported their allies in Gaul during the Gallic Wars against the Romans, prompting Julius Caesar to invade the island in 55 BC. The whole southern portion of the island became a prosperous region of the Roman Empire. It was finally abandoned by the Romans, early in the fifth century AD, when the weakening Empire pulled back its legions to defend borders on the Continent.
Unaided by the Roman army, the Britons could not long resist the tribes from the area of modern Germany, called the “Anglo-Saxons”, who arrived in the fifth century and sixth centuries AD.
The Saxons, various ancient chroniclers maintained, were the Sacaea, descended from the Scythians of southern Russia, a tradition recorded by both Camden and John Milton, the former in his Britannia, of the sixteenth century, and the latter in his History of England, in the seventeenth.37
The Saxons, like the Vikings, claimed descent from a Hunnish leader named Uldin, later Odin, or Wotan. According to the Yngling Saga, written by the Icelander Snorri Sturluson, Odin had moved north from the land of Asgaard, which was on the northwestern coast of the Black Sea, at the basin of the Don River in southern Russia. Asgard is likely the same as Arsareth, to which the Lost Tribes, following the captivity, were to have been relocated, according to ancient apocryphal works like the Book of 2 Esdras.
This would have been approximately 450 AD, when Odin’s descendants were said to have founded the nations of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians, and in Germany, the Saxon tribes. Odin, though a real man, was eventually worshipped as a god by his descendants. One-eyed, with a long white beard, he was a sorcerer who practised divination from a severed head, and could change shape at will. He survived in Western tradition as the figure of Santa Claus.
Footnotes:
37 Livingstone, David. Terrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History, p. 47.
