Place-name evidence for Taflas/Taifali as distinct group in 'Anglo-Saxon' Lincolnshire is, of course, interesting in itself...
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Have to say, do find Bede's claim that the Huns were involved especially intriguing...!
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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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> 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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> 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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> "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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@caitlinrgreen Isn't Attila/Etzel as an ancestor/hero popular across Germanic world? cf Caesar and Woden? -
@davidgmwilson Yes, but feel fairly sure this isn't what Bede, a very careful historian, is referring to in this passage!
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Of course, you also then got John Hines' archaeological argument for a 5/6thC Scandinavian migration to eastern Britain, with arch links >
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> in terms of artefacts between Gotland and Estonia and post-Roman Lincolnshire ;)
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(Which I shall tweet and/or post about some more at some point, as the links are intriguing!)
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@caitlinrgreen East Anglia too... -
@davidgmwilson indeed, but the Lincolnshire stuff has some interesting twists ;)
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