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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
caitlingreen.org
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    1. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 2 Jan 2015
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      @caitlinrgreen what do u say about events in 1066 when after Vikings Britain was invaded by Normans (shaved heads) were they victorious

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    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 2 Jan 2015
      Replying to @Umarkarim89

      @Umarkarim89 Well they certainly made changes, but important to recognize that pre-Norman England had v sophisticated government for time :)

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    3. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 3 Jan 2015
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      @caitlinrgreen this aryan invasion in Indian subcontinent was sort of similar to Norman invasion as it displacd indigenous people into south

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    4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Jan 2015
      Replying to @Umarkarim89

      @Umarkarim89 Interesting, thnk you. In UK, good argument for population continuity w/ prehistory, whereas used to think of massive changes.

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    5. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 3 Jan 2015
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      @caitlinrgreen these people can be found in South India as dravidians bt North India+Paki was occupied by Aryan hordes with locals as slaves

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    6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Jan 2015
      Replying to @Umarkarim89

      @Umarkarim89 History, tbh, is full of such sad tales. Look at those Islamic dirhams in Viking-age Europe---there because up to 1,000,000 >

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    7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Jan 2015
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      @Umarkarim89 >slaves sold by Vikings to Central Asian merchants, & telling that the word for native Britons (Welsh) in Anglo-Saxon=slave...

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    8. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 3 Jan 2015
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      @caitlinrgreen oh God thats revealing so it means practically there were British slaves in the central asian lands ruled by Samanid rulers?

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    9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Jan 2015
      Replying to @Umarkarim89

      @Umarkarim89 Oh, v likely: clear evidence of Vikings taking slaves from Britain/Ireland. However, majority prob slavic ppl, e.g. from Poland

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    10. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 3 Jan 2015
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      @caitlinrgreen ahaan poles well intensive research is needed to get more about that. Well Dr can u elaborate whts diff. bet Welse & English?

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      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Jan 2015
      Replying to @Umarkarim89

      @Umarkarim89 English=immigrants to eastern Britain, arrived mid5thC from Denmark/Germany; Welsh=descendants of pre-English Britons :)

      6:59 AM - 3 Jan 2015
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        2. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 3 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen and yeah wht are the normans called ? because in a documentry it was said that today they constitute a 5th of the total pop.

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Jan 2015
          Replying to @Umarkarim89

          @Umarkarim89 Hmm. Normans were an elite, nowhere near that many of them. Vikings (Northmen) might be what they meant? If so, lots in >

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        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @Umarkarim89 > eastern & northern Britain, much fewer in southern/western.

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        5. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 3 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen if Normans were an elite then i can presume they constituted the new royality and upper class after 1066. (They said Normans)

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        6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Jan 2015
          Replying to @Umarkarim89

          @Umarkarim89 Yes, with current Queen being a direct descendant of William the Conqueror.

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        7. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 3 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen ahaan more commonly know as William of Orange :) this is the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_The_Battle_for_Middle_Earth … and yes it was a 3 part movie :)

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        8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Jan 2015
          Replying to @Umarkarim89

          @Umarkarim89 Ah, ok! Not seen, I'm afraid :) William was also known as William the Bastard, but William of Orange later (L17thC)

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        9. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 4 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen on an interesting note we have a whole community in coastal areas who claim to be indigenous but hv African origin also :)

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        2. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 3 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen well it means theres a geographic allocation as well to these groups?

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Jan 2015
          Replying to @Umarkarim89

          @Umarkarim89 Well, modern Wales=the British(Welsh)-controlled areas that remained independent of English rule through early medieval period>

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        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 3 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @Umarkarim89 >, whereas the Britons/Welsh in what became England were taken over by Anglo-Saxons(English) & adopted new rulers' language etc

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        5. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 3 Jan 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen right right. obviously welsh is a bit different. Well now most of us know Wales for that footballer Gareth Bale :)

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