Map showing the Saxons homeland in traditional region bounded by the three rivers:
Weser,
Eider, and
ElbeSrc: "
Freeman's Historical Geographys".
The modern-day state
Schleswig-Holstein bordered on the
Angles, in the days of the early Saxons.
The Saxons or Saxon people are (today) a part of the German people, with their main areas of settlements in the German States of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Westphalia, and the northeastern part of the Netherlands (Groningen, Drenthe, Twente, Salland, Veluwe and Achterhoek).