Were there Huns in Anglo-Saxon England? Some thoughts on Bede, Priscus+Attila--new post by me: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/07/were-there-huns-in-anglo-saxon-england.html …pic.twitter.com/rWJeSruCvk
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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! :)
Whilst perhaps surprising, idea of Hunnic presence+short-lived dominion over mid5thC "ASs" in Britain has, arguably, a reasonable context >
> both in terms of ethnic complexity of 5thC immigrants + Hedeager's case for 5thC N Germany & S Scandinavia being both under Hunnic rule...
@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!
@caitlinrgreen is the mentioning about black huns? with whom a black cloud of vultures & kites flew they had bn known in North west Pakistan
@Umarkarim89 Yes, the Huns in Europe sometimes called Black Huns; those in Afghanistan/Pakistan etc usually called White Huns :)
@caitlinrgreen ahaan so practically there was no such distinction as black or white? they were the same group just dif names in dif places
@Umarkarim89 I seem to recall that name is a geographic marker rather than anything else, though Roman writers misunderstood.
@caitlinrgreen checked wikipedia for huns they had the article which is probably about white huns but article huna people discuss them all
@Umarkarim89 I think it's a matter of debate, the exact relationship, but often assumed part of same group & phenomenon!
@caitlinrgreen anyways they might be there somewhere in my ancestry :)
@Umarkarim89 Oh, absolutely! Is v likely, as is a link to Huns for Europeans too, I suspect!
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