A 6thC oral legend of the Goths having once been enslaved in Britain, as reported by Jordanes http://people.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html …pic.twitter.com/cZO577UKcz
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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A 6thC oral legend of the Goths having once been enslaved in Britain, as reported by Jordanes http://people.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html …pic.twitter.com/cZO577UKcz
A 'Gothic' type brooch, 2nd/3rdC AD---origins in Pontic/Balkan regions, found Oxfordshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/635629 …pic.twitter.com/zfrOsO0LcC
The famous E5thC 'Kingsholm Goth' from Gloucester; isotope analysis appears to confirm eastern European origins :) http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/10026/1/BA_Gloucester_Goth_article_for_NORA.pdf …
Finally, Guy Halsall's suggestion that the British writer Gildas (c.500) had a Gothic name: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k9Rjq8EnQ44C&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/abnXRlqF0t
Fwiw, Halsall is not first to note the difficulty over the name Gildas & its resemblance to the Mauretanian Gildo:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=q2U3i1X8B50C&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false …
@caitlinrgreen Dr Caitlin did u see the tweets a 9th century Muslim ring was found in sweden as well as a samanid time jar
@Umarkarim89 They're wonderful :)
@caitlinrgreen Yes amazing it is so beautiful and more evidence in support of your work :)
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