What is the difference between Anglo Saxons and Celts?

Question

What is the difference between Anglo Saxons and Celts?

Answer 1

The previous answer is correct but I just want to modify it a bit.The Anglo-Saxons are Germanic tribes that invaded the southern part of Britain circa 700 AD whereas the Celts were already in Britain (not England) long ago.The Angles and the Saxons changed the name of southern Britain to England which means "Land of the Angles" and they are the ancestors of the modern English-speaking people in Britain.The Celts are the ancestors of the Scots and Welsh (I'm not 100% sure about this last fact).

Answer 2

roughly speaking, the Anglo-Saxons are Germanic (Saxons--Saxony, Anglo--Angles), while the Celts are not.  I'm not sure you can pin them down like that, since they started elsewhere in Europe and moved into France (Brittany/Breton), Spain (Galicia), Britain (England, Ireland, Wales definitely; don't know about Scotland, with the Picts up there)

The Celts were in England before the Romans or Germanics.

Answer 3

Not as much as some would have it!

In ancient times Angles and Saxons were germanic tribes, while celts  were,well, celtic,and had spread throughout much of Europe(though the earliest traces of their culture came from Hallstatt, Austria--so not far from those pesky Germanics!)

In 'old school' history we were taught the the mean old Anglo-saxons killed all the celts in England,or drove them west--mainly this idea came from the rantings of monkish chroniclers of the time. Archaeologically,no mass graves have ever been found to denote any kind of 'ethnic cleansing'-although we have found evidence of both earlier and later skimishes-ie Boudicca's revolt against the Romans.

   And indeed recent DNA tests seem to show that only a relatively small amount of English,mostly in the East, have saxon ancestry. The majority of people in the British Isles & Ireland seem to descend from either neolithic farmers (your Stonehenge people) or ,even more common, mesolithic hunter gatherers who came from the basque region of Spain after the Ice Age.

  Even though Ireland is of course considered a Celtic country, there are no signs of a sizeable immigration of mid-European celts (hallstatt area)in about 500 BC,,making the island 'celtic' &taking overfrom natives. Weapons that appear continental are often found to be local copies,and as mentioned earlier, DNA points to a continuity of earlier peoples--meaning that these people by the bronze age were probably speaking some  form of the language we call gaelic.

Answer 4

The Anglo Saxons were the Germanic peoples who conquered England in the fifth century and formed the ruling class until the Norman conquest.The Celts  were part of a larger European community  in the British Isles who were driven out of England by the Romans into Scotland and Wales.

Answer 5

Celts were the first humans to live in the British Isles; Anglo Saxons (rather, the Angels, Saxons, and Jutes) came there later.

Answer 6

Celts were there -in the westerly regions of the island - when the Angles, Saxons and others arrived.from the mainland.