@AlcuinsLibrary @aethelflaedfan @caitlinrgreen The 1 map to reflect upon when Gildas starts moaning abt Hengest&Horsapic.twitter.com/RweR3g1ByF
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@caitlinrgreen @aethelflaedfan will have a look: now Huns had loads of things but nil ships?? unless pressure on smaller tribes #logical
@morangles @aethelflaedfan indeed... But Priscus in mid5thC indicates Attila ruled here, & Bede clearly thought Huns=ancestors of ASs...!
@caitlinrgreen @aethelflaedfan and Procopius believed England was realm of the dead see anecdote w/Franks Bede was like Gildas #blindspot
@morangles @aethelflaedfan he did indeed, though that in itself is interesting--Procopius has lots of interest in fact, despite his clear >
@morangles @aethelflaedfan > lack of direct knowledge! Hmm. May write a blog post on this, as several strands of interesting evidence! :)
.@morangles @aethelflaedfan And, of course, contemporaries in the mid5thC seem to think Attila ruled in Britain..! ;)pic.twitter.com/skTflgwfWX
@caitlinrgreen @morangles @aethelflaedfan depends on how the Hun 'empire' was 'organised', a big question in itself
@MarkBrierley1 @morangles @aethelflaedfan Oh, absolutely! Nonetheless, Bede does seem to think insular "Anglo-Saxons" partly drawn from Huns
@caitlinrgreen @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan Huns put pressure on Germanic/Gothic tribes moving westward In a way responsible but not party
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