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  1. The term Welsh or Wales literally comes from the word stranger or outsider. And it was used by other Germanic people too to describe non-Germanic peoples. One example is the region of Wallonia in Belgium. So yea they knew they were kin, but they did not all have the same identity.
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  2. Initially they would have, or even more specifically West/East Saxons/Angles or other tribal names like the Hwicce. But by the time of Alfred the Great and his sons and grandsons a united Anglo-Saxon or English identity was developing. This was specifically because of the merging of Mercia (Angle) and the West Saxon Kingdom. Hence why Alfred himself and his son Edward called themselves Kings of the Anglo-Saxons. But as the video said it as a later development in the Anglo-Saxob period
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