This is a warrior representing a grouping of Germanic peoples known as the Anglo-Saxons, who invaded Great Britain from the area of northern Germany and Denmark beginning in the 400s AD, after the Western Roman Empire had pulled out of the province. Together, the disparate kingdoms they formed in the area would become the country known as England today, with their language evolving into modern English. Originally, the Anglo-Saxons would have practiced a religion related to that of the Norse and other Germanic cultures, but they would convert to Christianity beginning in the late sixth century.