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The Anglo-Saxons were pagans when they came to  Britain, but, as time passed, they gradually converted to Christianity. Many of the customs we have in  England today come from pagan festivals.

Pagans worshiped lots of different gods. Each pagan god controlled a particular part of everyday life: the family, growing crops, love, healing, wisdom, metalworking, the weather, war, day & night and so on.

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Certain days of the week are named after early Saxon Gods.

Monandæg ( Moon's day )
Tiwesdæg ( Tiw's-day )
Wodnesdæg ( Woden's day )
Ðunresdæg ( Thor's Day )
Frigedæg ( Freyja's day )
Sæternesdæg ( Saturn's day - the day of the Roman god Saturn, whose festival "Saturnalia," with its exchange of gifts, has been incorporated into our celebration of Christmas.),
Sunnandæg ( Sun's day )

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We know what Saxons houses may have looked like from excavations of Anglo Saxon villages, such as the one at West Stow in the east of England. Here, an early Anglo-Saxon village (c.420-650AD) has been carefully reconstructed where it was excavated. Using clues from the what was discovered, archeologists have reconstructed the houses as they may have looked about 1,500 years ago.

Anglo-Saxons houses were huts made of wood with roofs thatched with straw, and since much of Britain was covered with forests, the Saxons had plenty of wood to use.

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The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain was a process by which Germanic invaders who arrived in Britain in the mid-5th century quickly pushed the Britons into fringes of the island and established a series of kingdoms, which by the 8th century became increasingly sophisticated with rulers who were among the most powerful in Europe

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The Saxons established kingdoms in Wessex, Essex, Sussex, Kent, and Hwicce;
The Angles established the kingdoms of East Anglia and Northumbria;
The Jutes settled in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight before being assimilated into the Saxons.

Gradually, the tribal war-bands coalesced into a series of kingdoms, with the seven principal among them being collectively termed the Heptarchy (Kent, Sussex, Essex, East Anglia, Wessex, Mercia, and Northumbria).

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The Angle, Saxon, and Jute are known as the Anglo-Saxons. The Angles and the Saxon tribes were the largest of the three attacking tribes and so we often know them as Anglo-Saxons. They shared the same language but were each ruled by different strong warriors.

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The Anglo-Saxons left their homelands in northern  Germany,  Denmark and  The Netherlands and rowed across the North Sea in wooden boats to Britain.
They were warrior-farmers and came from north-western Europe. They began to invade Britain while the Romans were still in control.The Anglo-Saxons were tall, fair-haired men and presumably  were farmers,hunters, carpenter and pludereres

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Anglo Saxon villages were usually very small, as the largest villages had no more than a few hundred people living there.

The villages were built near natural resources, since the villagers needed food, water, fuel for heating and cooking and materials for their homes and clothes.

The village also needed to protect itself, therefore all around the village was a high fence to keep the herds safe from the wild animals that lived inside the forests - wolves, foxes and boars.
The Anglo-Saxons grew crops and kept pigs, sheep and cattle. They hunted other animals and fish for food. They made household goods and farm equipment from pottery, wood and metal, clothes from cloth they wove themselves and they traded goods such as hunting dogs and slaves for things they couldn't make with people from other countries.