The Angles doubtless take their name from that angle of land which juts slightly out into the southern Baltic Sea between the present-day towns of Schleswig and Flensburg.
It is remarkable how an otherwise insignificant strip of land has given its name to a great foreign nation and to the most widely used language on the planet.
Procopius tells of other invaders from Fresia, while Bede limits himself to the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Indeed, Fresian (a Dutch dialect), is said to be the closest Continental language to English.