The Germanic tribes who gave rise to the English language, traded with and fought with the Latin-speaking Roman Empire in the process of the Germanic invasion of Europe from the East. Many Latin words for common objects therefore entered the vocabulary of these Germanic people even before any of these tribes reached britain; examples include camp, cheese, cook, kitchen, street and wall.
The Romans also gave English words which they had themselves borrowed from other languages: butter, wine and devil.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, around the year 449, Vortigern, King of the Britons, invited the "Angle kin" (Angles led by Hengest and Horsa) to help him in conflicts with the picts. In return, the angles were granted lands in the south-east of England. Further aid was sought and in response "came men of ald Seaxum os Anglum of lotum. the Cronicles talks of a subsequent influx of settlers who eventually established seven kingdoms, know as the heeptarchy
