How was England named?

Question

It seems like such a random word. Is there any meaning to it?

Answer 1

England became a unified state in the year 927 and takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled there during the 5th and 6th centuries.

Answer 2

England is a corruption of Angle-land, named after the Angles, one of the three tribes of Germanic people that invaded the island in the 5th Century and took it over. (The other two were called the Saxons and the Jutes.)

Answer 3

one of the viking invading tribes were the angles which lent its name to the area as angleland which became england.

Answer 4

borat named it