There's pretty good evidence that there were subtantial Saxon and Frisian settlements in Britain before the Hengist & Horsa incident. The old idea that the Saxo

There's pretty good evidence that there were subtantial Saxon and Frisian settlements in Britain before the Hengist & Horsa incident. The old idea that the Saxon shore was actually an "anti-Saxon shore" still has some adherents, but to say that it is being reconsidered is something of an understatement. And Bede's account (and similar stories of the era) fail to explain why Old English had a much closer resemblance to Old Frisian than it did to Old Saxon, or why Celtic monuments disappeared from the southeast of England long before the invasion was supposed to have occurred. Yes, the Germanic peoples pretty much displaced the Celtic outside of Wales, Cornwall and the north of Scotland, but the story as most of us learned it seems to be horribly oversimplified and "heroed up" (with the Frisians largely edited out by Saxon-descended writers).