Welcome Swein. It is good to see another active person here at Angelcynn. Your post is quite true, although I had never thought about it that way. Now it makes me think of something ironic. I was just re-reading the posts here about the King Arthur movie, and there is some irony concerning the Anglo-Saxon's thoughts on the invading Vikings. Just about 350 years before the coming of the Vikings, (I'm using the Lindisfarne date), there was another group of pagan invaders that wished to drive the native Britons off of their land, and they were called the Angles, Jutes, Saxons, and Frisians. Isn't it ironic that writers such as Bede and Nennius feel the way they do about the invaders when that is what their ancestors were a few hundred years earlier?
But then again, it doesn't matter what the racial makeup of an invader is. If there are bunches of large and able warriors pirating along my shorelines, I'd be scared too.