Place-name evidence for Taflas/Taifali as distinct group in 'Anglo-Saxon' Lincolnshire is, of course, interesting in itself...
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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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> 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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> 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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> often described as an "Asiatic", nomadic people....
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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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@davidgmwilson indeed, but the Lincolnshire stuff has some interesting twists ;)
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