Definition of "Anglosaxon"

The Anglosaxon belief in the Shieldmaidens comes to us indeed in a darkened form, yet we can hardly doubt that it survived.

1849, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England

on EARLY ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION, with especial reference to SHAKSPERE AND CHAUCER, containing an investigation of the correspondence of writing with speech in england, from the anglosaxon period to the present day, […]

1869, Alexander J[ohn] Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, […], London: […] [F]or the Philological Society, by Asher & Co., London & Berlin, and for the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co., […], title page

Working from the later, twelfth-century forms Kachestone, Cakeston, the great etymologist Skeat suggested an original Cahestun, meaning the farm of an Anglosaxon settler named Cah; […]

1976, George D. Painter, William Caxton: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 1977