The Saxons undoubtedly came over in large numbers; but a considerable body of their fellow-tribesmen still remained upon the Continent, where they were still independent and unconverted up to the time of Karl the Great.
The English, on the other hand, apparently migrated in a body.

There is no trace of any Englishmen in Denmark or Germany after the exodus to Britain.

Their language, of which a dialect still survives in Friesland, has utterly died out in Sleswick.

The English took for their share of Britain the nearest east coast.

We have little record of their arrival, even in the legendary story; we merely learn that in 547, Ida "succeeded to the kingdom" of the Northumbrians, whence we may possibly conclude that the colony was already established.