Post discusses intriguing refs in Bede's HE & Priscus, along w/ some poss arch+linguistic evidence and the British+continental contexts :)
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Priscus v interesting; arguably an oft ignored contemporary mid5thC ref to parts of Britain in 440s being under Attila's overlordship! :)
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Whilst perhaps surprising, idea of Hunnic presence+short-lived dominion over mid5thC "ASs" in Britain has, arguably, a reasonable context >
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> both in terms of ethnic complexity of 5thC immigrants + Hedeager's case for 5thC N Germany & S Scandinavia being both under Hunnic rule...
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@caitlinrgreen Fascinating read! IMHO most maps of who-ruled-what in 5th C Europe are oversimplified; reality prob was much more fluid. -
@caitlinrgreen Whole region seems a fractured soup, where Saxon-, Goth-, "Roman-" & Hun-led factions rose & dissolved constantly. -
@STORI3D_PAST Indeed, tho Peter Heather has some interesting points in how a sense of 'tribe' could survive this--they disappear+reappear!
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A 'Dyerken type' cicada brooch, prob 5thC in date, found Suffolk; type mainly found Middle Danube, Crimea+N Caucasus:pic.twitter.com/epid3F2hLa
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Another cicada is this one from Lincolnshire; 7thC reworking of poss 5thC E Germanic original? http://www.lincstothepast.com/Untitled/1001968.record?ImageId=478781&pt=S …pic.twitter.com/EaFaGu6tQS
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Some lovely fish-scale garnets, reportedly L4/E5thC+Hunnic, part of recent Fatezhsky finds: http://streetart-ekb.livejournal.com/641913.html pic.twitter.com/4MVHbvBmBP
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Also mentioned in post, a prob L5th/E6thC buckle tongue found Lincolnshire, best parallels from Norway+Estonia:pic.twitter.com/lVfEW5yToo
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Suggested that context of Hun refs is that 5thC Britain saw not just 'Angles, Saxons+Jutes' present, but also perhaps Scandinavians, Goths >
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> Suebi,Taifali,Frisians,Thuringians--potentially a complex situation (pic=Visigothic brooch, http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ctrl/springhead/brooch/brooch-zoom.html …)pic.twitter.com/Fk1ELI6JZZ
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@caitlinrgreen not surprising, given that most of the Germania tribes were conglomerates under dominant tribal leadership. Cf Peter Heather. -
@BirgittaHoffman Absolutely---it's a key point! :)
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Incidentally, Maenchen-Helfen's 'The World of the Huns' is available to read+download at https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_CrUdgzSICxcC …pic.twitter.com/TmISbJNBmR
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pp.255-6 are worth a look, if only for suggestion that Huns served on Hadrian's Wall in Britain during the L4thC...!https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CrUdgzSICxcC&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255#v=onepage&q&f=false …
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@caitlinrgreen Interesting idea! No inscription w the fort's name has been found, so we only have Notitia/Ravenna to go from. -
@caitlinrgreen Also interesting that after a lull in early 4th C, pro's think the garrison was augmented at end of the C. Huns? Why not? -
@STORI3D_PAST Yes, worth at least considering, I think! :)
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