@AlcuinsLibrary @aethelflaedfan @caitlinrgreen The 1 map to reflect upon when Gildas starts moaning abt Hengest&Horsapic.twitter.com/RweR3g1ByF
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@caitlinrgreen @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan Bede could have been writing abt Visigoths Langobards Franks in that instance
@morangles @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan But he's not--he names who he means immediately after, and includes the Huns amongst the ppls...
@caitlinrgreen @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan Question is there any proof Huns moved to UK&Continental any proof of Hunnic navy/ships
@caitlinrgreen @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan Germanic mercenaries/foederati/scouts etc worked for Empire w/success see Arbogast&Stilicho
@caitlinrgreen @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan Britons could hve call AS rightly Germani as descdendents of Germanic mercenaries
@morangles @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan No, he's saying the *Britons* call the ASs Garmani by corruption, and then he clarifies w/ names..
@morangles @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan ...ie he's saying they do this crudely, but here are ppls that ASs actually come from...
@morangles @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan ...and then lists a number of ppls incl Huns, offering much more complex pic than his earlier list
@caitlinrgreen @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan Now this would make more sense Hunnic empire was more a confederation Goths included
@caitlinrgreen @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan located in Roman legions ...in Britain. no invasion simply relocation followed by ousting
@caitlinrgreen @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan local elites if not embedding as Franks w/Gallo-Romans Maybe if Attila had been in Britain
@caitlinrgreen @MarkBrierley1 @aethelflaedfan A common enemy is generally source of union btwn different people Irony lost on Gildas
@MarkBrierley1 @morangles @aethelflaedfan (which seems to me not the same thing!)
@caitlinrgreen @morangles @aethelflaedfan also Tacitus used Germani as generic description of people outside Roman Empire not ethnic
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