Are the English Actually Germanic?

For centuries, the answer seemed obvious: the English spoke a Germanic language, so they must have been mostly Germanic. But the graves told a more complicated story. DNA from early medieval burials reveals a massive migration from across the North Sea, while also showing that the Britons never disappeared and another unexpected ancestry was already entering the island. The real history of England is not a simple replacement of one people by another. It is a mixture of migrations, survival, language changes and identities that formed over generations.