立吞人统治者在索爾茲伯里平原被亨吉斯特(英语:Hengist and Horsa)带领的盎格鲁-撒克逊定居者(英语:Anglo-SaxonsettlementofBritain)背叛,最后被杀害。叛乱者的口号是“拿起你的刀!”(Nemet oure Saxas(英语:Seax))。除此以外,“長刀之夜”也可以指:
nucleus of the Anglo-Saxonsettlement does not seem aptly described in terms of the 'elite-dominance model.' To all appearances, the settlement was carried
Hill, D. Atlas ofAnglo-Saxon England. Oxford. 1981. map 136. Hooke, Della. Anglo-Saxon Territorial Organisation: The Western Margins of Mercia. Occasional
ISBN 0-19-282235-7 Sims-Williams, P. (1983) The settlementof England in Bede and the "Chronicle" from Anglo-Saxon England, Vol. 12 pp. 1–41, Cambridge University