Revisited: Why did the Saxons call their language English?

A revisit to answering why the Saxons of Britain called their language English.

Sources:

Early Mercian Text Production: Authors, Dialects, and Reputations
https://brill.com/view/journals/abag/77/3-4/article-p541_541.xml?language=en

Asser's Life of King Alfred, together with the Annals of Saint Neots erroneously ascribed to Asser;
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125000734208/page/62/mode/2up?ref=ol

Asser's Life of King Alfred Together with the Annals of Saint Neots Erroneously Ascribed to Asser
By Asser, John Asser · 1904
https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Asser_s_Life_of_King_Alfred/qCRLAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Sweet, Henry. King Alfred's West-Saxon version of Gregory's Pastoral care. United Kingdom: Early English Text Society, 1871.
https://www.google.ca/books/edition/King_Alfred_s_West_Saxon_version_of_Greg/nIM4AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Earle, John. The Philology of the English Tongue. United Kingdom: Clarendon Press, 1873.

Music:
Boismortier, -Suite in B minor - Op. 35. No. 5b -Medieval Music - Nesrality
Medieval Storyteller - FreeGroove
"The Gift | Pagan - Norse Background Music" - OB-LIX
Se Freca - Cefin Beorn
Beornwulf - Cefin Beorn

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