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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
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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Place-name evidence for Taflas/Taifali as distinct group in 'Anglo-Saxon' Lincolnshire is, of course, interesting in itself...

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      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015

      Supports notion that things rather more complicated than Angles, Saxons+Jutes in post-Roman period... Franks in South, Suevi in East Anglia>

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          > Elvecones possibly at Elm, and Bede of course mentions Huns in 'Anglo-Saxon England' in Bk 5! Latter esp interesting as Priscus in 5thC >

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          > says Attila claimed domain over islands in the Ocean ;) Taifali add to this sense of a more complicated post-Roman situation, esp as >

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        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          > often described as an "Asiatic", nomadic people....

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        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Have to say, do find Bede's claim that the Huns were involved especially intriguing...!

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        6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Re: the Huns as ancestors of the 8thC Anglo-Saxons, has been argued that Bede clearly intended it read this way and he lists the Huns >

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        7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          > in his second list (HE V.9) immediately before the Saxons, and in this context the Priscus comment that Attila ruled to the islands in >

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        8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          > the ocean is most intriguing... On the other hand, has been suggested that perhaps Bede using Huns as general shorthand for non-Germanic,>

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        9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          > "Asiatic" peoples who played a part in the adventus? If so, has been suggested Alans may be meant, altho' Taifali is another option too!

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        2. Bill Shipley‏ @Harry_cartoons 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Frankish 'boots on the ground' in Kent, rather than just the trading links & artistic/cultural influence already known about?

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @Harry_cartoons

          @Harry_cartoons Hmm, going to say tentative 'yes', not least because early law codes and Procopius imply degree of Frankish control there...

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        4. Bill Shipley‏ @Harry_cartoons 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen That opens a can of worms. Bede writes of early Jutish presence in Kent so it's certainly a complex picture, but fascinating!

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        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @Harry_cartoons

          @Harry_cartoons it does indeed---Ian Wood has written some very important pieces that discuss this :)

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        6. Bill Shipley‏ @Harry_cartoons 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Where can I see them?

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        7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @Harry_cartoons

          @Harry_cartoons Procopis mentions 6thC Frankish claim to overlordship in Wars, VIII.xx.10... Woods & law codes, see Wood's essay on >

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        8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @Harry_cartoons > "Frankish hegemony in England" in Carver (ed.) Age of Sutton Hoo, Woodbridge 1992 :)

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        9. Bill Shipley‏ @Harry_cartoons 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Thanks! I take it that is Martin Carver who I have read in the past, and is very good on East Anglia.

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        2. Albern Berg‏ @irrpfad 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Southern Germans in East Anglia?

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @irrpfad

          @irrpfad Swaffham in Norfolk+Cambs means "estate of the Suevi" :)

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        4. Albern Berg‏ @irrpfad 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Swaffham then one of a very small number of scattered communities of Suevi?

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        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @irrpfad

          @irrpfad Yes, probably best way to look at it---names are prob early, perhaps have origins in 5/6thC :)

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        6. Albern Berg‏ @irrpfad 22 Feb 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Thanks to ur posts I've been trying to bone up on this. It intrigues me as I lived for a while in "Alemannia" ie modern Baden

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