Published by The New Angle on Feb 26, 2026
March 21st, 2026
The English are a Germanic people. This is a fact.
We eat sausages, drink beer, we have Gothic cathedrals, we speak Old English, we celebrate 'Odin's day' (Wednesday) and 'Thor's day' (Thursday), we are a logical people, we come from Lower Saxony, and we are a martial race.
And it is a fact that this has been downplayed in our history for three important reasons that we will explore now.
First, is that the Anglo-Saxons were originally heathen and Christians tried to suppress their heathen characteristics. The conversion of the Anglo-Saxons was not a clean affair and many pagan practices continued for centuries. Hence, the Germanic nature of the English and especially the Germanic cosmology has been, historically, muted due to Christianity. We are living through the end of the Enlightenment now. It is interesting to see how people are returning to both Germanic and Christian beliefs.
Second is that our forbears preferred to identify with Rome rather than barbarian tribes. The Romans very much shaped Britain so this is not a wholly unwarranted choice. For a long time this association was preferred over the Germanic association.
Third, that post WWI and WWII, English sentiment of the 'Krauts' was not exactly rosy. Then, as we entered the Modern period, the figure of Hitler became the very embodiment of Satan, and the victory over Fascism became the narrative that fueled American and English sense of self. Actually, Satan is much worse than Hitler. Subsequently the Woke ideology, which is essentially Fundamental Protestant Christianity in disguise, connects even the mildest association with anything Germanic as heresy. Hence, to acknowledge the truth which is that the Anglo-Saxons came from a tradition of thousands of years of Germanic institutions, culture, and cosmology, is morally condemned.
The final factor is to say that in America 'Anglo-Saxon' has a different meaning than in England. In England it just means 'the English people' and has no contentious undertones. This is useful to know for our America readers. It became a contested phrase in America due to the temperature of the Civil Rights Movement. In England it didn't become a contested phrase. Unfortunately, in recent times the American meaning of the word has passed in to English. This has caused some cowards and especially academic cowards to ignore the topic entirely when it is an essential part and indeed is who we are.
At the New Angle, we are concerned with the Truth. We are also interested in new angles. The Truth is that, for thousands of years prior to the adoption of Christianity in England, the English had a Wotanic cosmology and they were part of a broader Germanic world, from Corded Ware Culture (c. 2900 BC), to Nordic Bronze Age Expansion (c. 1700 BC), to Jastorf culture (600 BC), to the Anglo-Saxon migration period (c. 400 AD). To ignore this fact is to lose understanding of ourselves.
The new angle which we would like to forward is the inherent Germanic cosmology of the English people, which underpins our Christian one. Historically, our ancestors have given greater consideration to the somewhat alien cosmology of classical Greece than to our genuine theological origins in Scandanavia.
Simultaneously, the United Kingdom is not a purely Anglo-Saxon enterprise, instead we have been importantly shaped by Celtic peoples for millenia. Indeed, Britain and America are the final frontiers of the Celtic peoples in the world, and we ought to acknowledge that and understand what it means. Not to do so is to not understand ourselves.