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The 'Ingaevones' or 'Ingvaeones', as described in Tacitus's ''Germania'', written ''ca'' 98 CE, were a West Germanic cultural group living along the North Sea coast in the areas of Jutland, Holstein, Frisia and the Danish islands, where they had by the first century BCE become further differentiated to a foreigner's eye into the Frisians, Saxons, Jutes and Angles. The postulated common group of closely related dialects of the Ingvaeones is called ''Ingvaeonic'' or ''North Sea Germanic''.
Tacitus' source categorized the ''Ingaevones near the ocean'' as one of the three tribes descended from the three sons of Mannus, son of Tuisto, progenitor of all the Germanic peoples: the other two being the ''Hermiones'' and the ''Istaevones''. According to Rafael von Uslar, this threefold subdivision of the West Germanic tribes corresponds to archeological evidence from Late Antiquity.
Pliny ''ca'' 80 CE in his ''Natural History'' (IV.99) lists the Ingvaeones as one of the five Germanic confederations, the others being the ''Vandili'', the ''Istvaeones'', the ''Hermiones'' and another group he does not name. According to him, the Ingvaeones were made up of Cimbri, Teutons, and Chauci.
The legendary father of the Ingaevones/Ingvaeones is named ''
★ Ingwaz'' (Ing, Ingo, or Inguio), son of Mannus. This is also the name applied to the Viking era deity Freyr. Jacob Grimm, in his ''Teutonic Mythology'' considers this Ing to have been originally identical to the obscure Scandinavian Yngvi, eponymous ancestor of the Swedish royal house of the Ynglings. An Ingui is also listed in the Anglo-Saxon royal house of Bernicia. Since the Ingaevones form the bulk of the Anglo-Saxon settlement in Britain, they were speculated by Noah Webster to have given England its name.^[1]
In the ''Historia Brittonum'' ''Mannus'' becomes corrupted to "Alanus"^[2] and ''Ingio''/''Inguio'', his son, to ''Neugio''. Here the three sons of Neugio are named Boganus, Vandalus, and Saxo – from whom, according to "Nennius" came the peoples of the Bogari, the Vandals, and the Saxons and Tarincgi.

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1. Webster, Noah. ''Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education''. S. Converse, 1823. Page 105.
2. But compare Alans.

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★ Stefan Sonderegger (1979): Grundzüge deutscher Sprachgeschichte. Diachronie des Sprachsystems. Band I: Einführung – Genealogie – Konstanten. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-003570-7